[Trlog] TR on DOSBox on OS/X

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     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
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/