[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri May 12 08:09:44 EDT 2023


On 2023-05-11, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> How does VMS keep track of time?
>

By modern standards, very, very poorly, as demonstrated by an event that
takes place twice a year.

This is something that Unix got absolutely right, and which VMS got
absolutely wrong...

Simon.

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