Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/28/09:56:14
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> At 03:05 PM 2/28/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >Short answer: Upgrade to Make 3.77 (v2/mak377b.zip from the usual DJGPP
> >places); it should solve this problem.
>
> There's a newer version?
Since last August, yes.
> It fiddles with the real-time clock instead of letting it advance as per
> normal?
Please read the explanation in the FAQ. Windows doesn't fiddle with the
clock, it just computes the time stamp for the file in a way that makes
its last modification time be ahead of the system clock, in some cases
up to 3 seconds(!).
> >Ha! Since when is logic part of MS-Windows (or any MS software, for that
> >matter)???
>
> Well, the underlying hardware is deterministic :P
Windows is a living proof that software can make any reasonable hardware
behave unreasonably...
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