It's been documented on this forum in the past that the Palm does "something" at midnight. Search the archives and maybe you'll get some insight into this. I think you're seeing a symptom of something more system-wide rather than a serial manager specific issue.
> I am writing a program utilizing the serial port on palm to receive > data from a serial communication source. Everything works fine until > the very moment of mid-night --- one may preset the clock to > 11:59pm so that he doesn't have to wait for a whole day to see the > result. At exactly 12:00AM, the serial port will stop receiving > data, to make it worse, instead of losing a few bytes, the only way > to resume the receiving is to call SrmClearErr(gPortID), hinting a > serious prolbem in either the serial manager or even the serial > manager. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/