[Info-vax] SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE on Itanic

[John Reagan]

"Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER" <peter at langstoeger.at> wrote in message 
news:49f73292$1 at news.langstoeger.at...
> In article <49f71082$0$7420$ec3e2dad at unlimited.usenetmonster.com>, "Jilly" 
> <jilly at stny.rr.com> writes:
>>This change was introduced in OpenVMS I64 V8.3-1H1 and is indeed due to 
>>the
>>needs of DTSS for the GMT based rules.
>
> And why is this change not documented (V8.3-1H1 RN doesn't mention it)?
>
> And what problems at all? I personally haven't seen one (but now I fear 
> one).
>
> I thought, this is a POSIX rule (format). Did POSIX change the format?
>

The problem was for a timezone name that looks like a timezone rule. 
"GMT-8" for instance.  Both a name and a rule.  The parsing code inside of 
DTSS got confused when doing a NET$CONFIGURE.

John