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File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.09.2007, 21:51

> While moving data from old ThinkPad 770 to my new Evo N620c laptop I
> noticed a strange thing: Whenever copying (COPY, XCOPY, VC) a file with
> date "xxxx-01-01" (YYYY-MM-DD) from a network share its date becomes
> "adjusted" to "xxxx-13-01" (Do we have a 13th month, that I didn't know
> off? ).
>
> Explanations are welcome! It's a little hard to debug this monster.

I dunno, try removing any COUNTRY.SYS lines in CONFIG.SYS, reboot, and try again. What specific DOS variant are you using? Does it behave the same in FreeDOS and something else too?

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Complete thread:

• File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - rr, 02.09.2007, 18:46
  • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - Steve, 02.09.2007, 19:55
    • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - rr, 02.09.2007, 21:40
      • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - Steve, 02.09.2007, 22:08
        • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - rr, 02.09.2007, 22:09
  • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - Rugxulo, 02.09.2007, 21:51
    • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - rr, 02.09.2007, 22:08
      • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - Rugxulo, 02.09.2007, 23:13
  • File date bug in MS Network Client 3.0 - rr, 26.10.2007, 14:58