[Info-vax] Does anyone know if the unsupported TBO (time boost utility that "drifts" time forward or backward by adjusting ticklength) was every ported to the Itanium?

[Jon Pinkley]

We are still running on Alpha, but will be migrating to Itanium.

Instantaneous time jumps are not tolerated well by out application, especially in the fallback direction.  So we have always use time drift to move the clocks forward or backward, and SYS$MANAGER:UTC$TIME_SETUP.COM to adjust the TDF.

I am not looking for an answer for this weekend, but since it was on my mind, I thought I would post a question.

Hoff's archived FAQS mentioned that Itanium time support was never documented in any internals manuals.  I have seen references to a SETCLOCK utility, but can't find it (and suspect it was VAX only).

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/vms/part3/

I have never seen the low level time support in the Itanium, and the TBO V2.0 utility uses cmkrnl code.  $cmkrnl_s routin=reset_hwclk	; Initiate reset routine

And the code has alpha specific parts to gets the clock tick frequency from the HWRPB, so this is going to be more than running through the MACRO32 compiler.

Here is the original comp.os.vms thread for the version we are still using.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/_o1LqXVeSlY/j5n_HNJolk4J

or by original message id: 
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From: ve... at nl101.ittpub.nl (Hans van Veen - ITT Gouden Gids)
Subject: Daylight saving - Repost TBO code
Date: 1996/10/23
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And I know the correct solution would be to use UTC for timestamps, but that won't happen soon.