[Info-vax] Time change

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <00a13cad$0$27203$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>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.

Here I have to wait for the last Sundy in March...

>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 ?

Here we use NTP to synchronize the clock with an Alpha and allow a maximum
time-shift of 3700 seconds. So the VAXen get updated automatically.

>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 ?

No idea.

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

I think so. At least this was the time with one node sometime ago.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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