greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery) (01/04/91)
I'm having a problem with my system's clock. Sometimes when I'm running
a program overnight, the date is not updated. I'm using a routine from
BetterBasic that gets the DOS date, so I think the problem is the DOS
clock is not being updated. I need to know when and how the DOS clock is
updated. Shouldn't it be updated everytime I call it?? Or is the BIOS
clock the one not being updated? However, if I reboot the computer, the
date is correct and I don't have to change it manually. I'm thinking
about writing an asm routine that the Basic program will call and the
routine will set a global variable to the date returned by the BIOS
clock (int 1ah, function 04h). Is this my only alternative?? It's been
awhile since I've written asm code, so I'm hoping to avoid this! <grin>
Thanks in advance for the help... Oh yeah, the computer is a Acer 286
running MS-DOS v3.30 or v3.31.
Greg
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