[Info-vax] satellite one hour ahead

[John E. Malmberg]

On 10/25/2016 4:44 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <num3g3$kr7$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>
>> If you want to try localtime and lack the patches for the older bits,
>> then upgrade to V8.4 --- you've been asked to perform that V8.4 upgrade
>> before, and for other reasons --- and run with something approaching
>> current OpenVMS bits, and see if that remediates this.
>
> Yes, underpatched, but I'm a hobbyist.  7.3-2 patches were current when
> the access was cut off.

You should be able to compare the timezone files and the *time* logicals.

There also should be a utility installed that allows you to create 
custom timezones, so that you can generate one.

Or if the node with an issue just has an out of date timezone file for 
your location, I would be surprised if the timezone file from a working 
has a different format.

> 8.4?  Upgraded one node and DECwindows stopped working in that the CDE
> interface doesn't come up.  Since I use CDE daily (mostly on a satellite
> booting from a 7.3-2 node), I can't risk that.
>
> When I have time I'll see if I can solve the DECwindows problem.  There
> were many suggestions here, but none of them helped.

It is mostly DCL scripts.  Which means that you can temporarily add 
instrumentation to them.

Also temporarily turn on image accounting to find out the exit status of 
images that you can not see from the command files.

Or permanently turn on image accounting and have daily job that scans it 
for events and starts a new log, with a retention policy on old logs 
that makes sense for you.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work