[TRLog] time/date problems with n6tr v6.50 under windows 2000

[D. R. Evans]

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On 26 Jun 00, at 10:18, George Fremin III - K5TR wrote:

> 
> I dont know if there is a way to fix this - perhaps
> Tree chould have TR get the time from the hardware clock
> or check itself every so often.
> 
> 

Not unless Win2000 is fundamentally different from earlier versions of NT, 
which I strongly doubt.

In the NT series of operating systems a DOS box is a DOS emulator running 
on a virtual machine. It cannot get to the real hardware, only to virtual 
"hardware". And since the NT box is doing other things than just running 
the DOS box, the "hardware" clock on the virtual machine runs slightly 
slower (and more erratically) than a real clock does.

This is all completely different from the way that DOS works in the Win9x 
series of systems.

  Doc  N7DR


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