[Info-vax] bizarre problem with system time (not DST)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5516faf4$0$46597$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > _If_ the timezone format is invalid for 7.3-2 because the time has
> > been served from the 8.4 box, then I wonder if your satellite has
> > fallen back to using GMT ?
> 
> It is my understanding that each node in a cluster exists with its own
> interpretation of time.  Or at the time zone offsets defined in files
> that are in SYS$COMMON and thus used by all nodes ?

SYS$COMMON does NOT mean all nodes in the cluster.  It means all nodes
which boot from that disk.  Each bootserver has its own system disk
(otherwise I couldn't do a rolling upgrade).  Satellites, by definition, 
don't have their own system disk.