[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]

On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 7:36:01 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> There are calls for contending with that and most other time-related 
> needs, among the C RTL calls, the UTC system service calls, and the 
> DTSS calls.
> 
> The classic system service calls, and the DCL commands associated with 
> time, not so much.
> 
> http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/i64os/opsys/vmsos84/4493/4493pro_016.html#port_api 
> 
> http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/i64os/opsys/vmsos84/5763/5763profile_068.html#tzset_function 
> 
> http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/6677/6677pro_gen.html#heading_3.12 
> 
> etc
> 

Thanks for the links, the decdts

I skimmed through the first link and finally got to the last page, where there was an example.

http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/i64os/opsys/vmsos84/4493/4493pro_021.html

But unfortunately, you must need to be using DECnet-Plus.  Why they don't mention this until the end where it has (with invalid cc /output= instead of /object=)

Assume the preceding program is named compare_events.c . To compile and link the program on a DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS system, enter the following command:

$ cc compare_events.c/output=compare_events.obj
$ link compare_events.obj, sys$input:/options[Return]
sys$library:dtss$shr.exe/share[Ctrl-z]
$

We have DECnet IV and are not using DDTS for time.

I found some old threads with a search for "DECdts" on google groups.  They said that DECdts is included after 7.3-2, and the system has sys$library:dtss$shr.exe, but I can't find utc.h to #include