[Info-vax] SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE on Itanic

[Jilly]

"John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> "Volker Halle" <volker_halle at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Peter,
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>> I checked some I64 systems (V8.2, V8.3) and always found the SYS
>> $TIMEZOME_RULE logicals as expected with '-' instead of '^'. Something
>> unusual on your system ?
>>
>> Volker.
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> From a quick look, it all looks intentional.  There was some issue with 
> DTSS and timezone rules that the "-" was causing problems.  For a while, 
> the "-" was replaced with "M" but then later it was again replaced with 
> "^".  That's about all I could learn from 5 minutes of picking through 
> edit histories.
>
> John

This change was introduced in OpenVMS I64 V8.3-1H1 and is indeed due to the 
needs of DTSS for the GMT based rules.