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Subj : Re: Reading PC time
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jeff Baker
Date : Sat Jun 12 2004 06:17 pm

I had a similar experience. I tried making successive calls for the time and
that seemed to work fairly well but in the end I ended up converting the
project over to 32-bit and the problem went away.

- Jeff


"Mike Mellen" <Mike.Mellen@intellikey.com> wrote in message
news:4069bd28@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I'm supporting a 16-bit app developed with BCPP 4.51.  At various times it
> has to read the current time from the PC using time() and localtime().  On
> Win98, it works fine. On Win2K and WinXP, some users reported that the
> reported time was sometimes not correct. I have been able to duplicate the
> problem by running the app and having it read the time, which it does
> correctly.  Then, while the app is still running, I change the PC's clock
by
> bumping the hour ahead or back.  The app then reports the correct minutes
> and seconds, but still reports the original hour that it was reporting
> before I changed the clock.  If I close the app, then restart it, it now
> reports the new time "correctly".
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

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