Re: VMS732_ACRTL-V0300

David J. Dachtera wrote:
Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:

The notes say

Optional Kit Dependencies: VMS732_TZ-V0100

But this patch is not on the ITRC site. What's up?


Likely the forthcoming patch to address the impending change in time
zone rules for the U.S.

Will they/can they release this patch *before* the fall DST change?
If so, how will it know to continue using the old/current rule until
the new rule takes effect next spring (2007)?

My understanding of the timezone rules is they tell the standard
and DST displacement from UT, and the days (month, week and day)
and time of day of the changes. Things like "DST takes effect at
2AM on the 1st Sunday of April and standard time takes effect at
2AM on the last Sunday of October." There is nothing there to say
"This rule pertains from 1980 through 2006. No DST changes from
1976 to 1979. Last Sunday in Feb and 1st Sunday in October was the
rule from 1945 through 1975. New rule takes effect in 2007..." [1]

One of my customers was asking about this recently, and I said I
was sure they would produce a patch for it, but probably not until
after November, to prevent spurious use of the new rule a year too
early. Then a week later, HP released the ACRTL kit... :-( trying
to make me look bad...

Why an ACRTL kit? Were the US rules hard-coded into the C RTL? If
so, I hope the fix is to use the defined system rules instead!

Shouldn't there also be fixes for all the other VMS versions? VAX
will need the new rules too!

--
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
781-861-0670 ext 539
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