[Info-vax] boottime in the future

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jcph4o$nag$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, "Fred Zwarts \(KVI\)" <F.Zwarts at KVI.nl> writes:
> 
> I don't understand this. I always understood that VMS took the year from =
> the=20
> SYS.EXE image file. The TOY (Time of Year) clock only supplied the time=20
> within the year. The SYS.EXE file is updated at shutdown with a SET =
> TIME. At=20
> least, this was the case on VAX hardware.

   This was true on VAX-11, but I'm not sure it was true on the last
   VAXen made, as the TOY clock was implemented via a watch chip by
   about the time the first Alphas and last VAXen were made.

   But even so, someone could have screwed the system time prior to the
   last shutdown.