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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Planning Ahead for 1997 I-F Contest.
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Neil K. Guy (nkg@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:
>  Can Inform games read the date from the computer's clock calendar? 
> Somehow I don't think it can... though I know TADS games can.

No, they can't, and the computer clock can be diddled with anyway. (As 
you note later.)

--Z

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