* Posts by budp

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OK brainiacs, we've got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is... just so

budp

problem with time of day

I had a strange problem with Timex watch software for the PC back in a similar timeframe.

The software would only work between midnight and noon EST, and got a non-indicative error between noon and midnight EST.

So I used it in the morning for some time.

I eventually did determine what the error was.

My computer was running with a 24-hour clock option rather than a 12-hour clock option.

The Timex software was written assuming a 12-hour clock, so hours 13-23 were not acceptable.

I sent an email, but the bug was never fixed.

After that discovery, if I needed to update the watch after noon, I temporarily changed the system clock to 12-hour.