How does the computer know the present date and time?
问题 Please pardon my ignorance about this. I may have read this a long time ago, many years ago in Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, 4th Ed. book, and I must have forgotten it all. I remember the very first chapter had something to say about timer resolutions and clock-speeds of the CPU but I forget the details. I think in that he answers this question. But I could be imagining things. It's been a long while. While there is a related question here, the answer is not to my satisfaction as it