[Info-vax] Time change

[JF Mezei]

Woke up this sunday and to my surprise, the TV clock had changed. I
hadn't even seen that one coming. The ALphas changed their time, as did
the thermostat, and my switch. Had to change time manually on the VAX
and on my DSL modem.

Are there any hopes that a patch would be issued to get VAX-VMS 7.3 to
have auto auto-daylight stuff working ? Would this be a very complex
change or fairly simple one ?


How is this implemented in alpha ? Does the system do a glorified
SYS$SETTIM to call a routine to execute at the next scheduled time
change ?  or is there some other type of mechanism that allows VMS to
schedule some event in the long term ?


Also, if I have an alpha that was shutdown during this time, when it
next boots, will it automatically change its time ?