Re: Time change questions !

In article <45489e8a$0$14817$9a6e19ea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"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.

What on earth does that have to do with anything ?

VMS had the defect of a single time zone for all user processes before
there were any TCP/IP stacks available for it. The problem besets dialup
users as well.

That said, I believe the best solution is to run the VMS system on GMT.
.

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