Re: Time jumps ahead more than a day after suspend and resume

Jaap-Henk> After a suspend and the next resume, the value of Jaap-Henk> (decode-time (current-time)) has increased by more than Jaap-Henk> a day (see eg header of this mail; that's how i Jaap-Henk> discovered this in the first place)! This happens Jaap-Henk> independent of the length of the suspended state, Jaap-Henk> although it seems that the longer the system is Jaap-Henk> suspended, the larger the time increase Jaap-Henk> becomes. Needless to say both windows and cygwin report Jaap-Henk> the correct time. This is a Windows or BIOS bug; correct time after resume depends on what library API you use. There's another function, current-time-string IIRC, that gives correct results. Presumably one looks at system time, the other at the hardware clock. I don't know why XEmacs uses different library calls in different places, and until I do I'm not going to make the "obvious" change, since this is Windows breakage. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py