[Trlog] TR on DOSBox on OS/X

[Kevin Schmidt]

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?
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
> 
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