I believe this is a known bug in DosBox. The last message of this thread
claims to have a patch that works:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=12891&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&sid=ebd291788b5bb9e01858708c27242632
which was the first result from a google search using
dosbox date bug midnight
73 Kevin w9cf
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 07:29:06AM -0700, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> For various reasons, I couldn't get on full-time as a guest-op in the
> WPX phone last weekend. I scrounged a few hours to make a few dozen QSOs
> from home on my three-bander vertical. Sometime back, I moved from a Windows
> box to a Mac Mini at the operating desk, and this was the first time I'd been
> faced with the question of how to log contest QSOs on the Mac. I downloaded
> DOSBox, and within a few minutes I had TR Log up and running and created
> a very simple config file to get going - no rig control, no CW, no network,
> no packet, etc. It worked great. Except.
>
> I wasn't really paying attention to the clock and I began to log at
> 29-Mar-13 21:50 (local time). OK - no big deal - I can fix that after the
> contest. What's odd, though, is that DOSBox never rolled over the date and
> just kept incrementing the hour. I have QSOs in the log with timestamps
> like '29-Mar-13 58:32', '29-Mar-13 65:35' and my final contact at
> '29-Mar-13 66:59'. As far as I can tell, the minutes are accurate and I
> can manually correct the hours/dates before I send in the log.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this before? If I ever try to use DOSBox
> again for TR, is there anything I can set in the configs to not have this
> happen again?
>
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> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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> http://www.kenharker.com/
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