Re: Time change questions !


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Modern O/Ss, including VMS, normally keep time in UTC. The display of
local time is merely a convenience for the user. Each user, if he wishes,
can have times displayed using his own local time zone. Time is thus
always monotonically increasing, it's only the DISPLAY of the time that
bounces around; time stamps should be unambiguous.


Sorry but VMS does not work this way. Shifting in/out of daylight savings
time does change the clock. Now it is true that a bunch of stuff has been to
added to the RTLs so that UNIX languages (C/C++/Java) return the expected
values including time zone.

Most flavors of UNIX do work this because they were designed with internet
connectivity in mind.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/


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