are you sure the game will work if those commands were added ?

it's weird that the game would do an external call as the internal calls to date and time are supported .... why create such an overhead....

The game already works. It just doesn't show an initial screen. Of course I know DATE and TIME commands are internal ones. If they are supported, how come that when i type them it comes out nothing, then? I presume you mean they're are supported internally when a program makes a DOS Call to the appropiate int/function, but not supported as 'typeable' commands. Is it not?

Yep only the internal dos functions are supported and time/date is synched to host system's time at dosbox startup.

perhaps the game can't cope with big years? Can you try it on a modern machine running DOS or FreeDOS (VMWARE?)

or you could temporarily set your clock back...

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I'm having a time/date issue with some old software now. It probably doesn't matter much, but older BBS software such as the one I'm testing (Renegade v04-05 I think) will not load and drops to the prompt saying "Please enter a time and date." There's a newer version of this software from 2004 that doesn't have this problem. I believe 04-05 is from 1996. Just thought I'd let you know.

BTW: (Now that this thread has been resurrected), Prehistorik 2 and Titus the fox now detect time properly. 😁

I fixed a small bug with date and time on files which were open.
some savegames now show proper dates and times as well