[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Mon May 15 06:12:41 EDT 2023
On 2023-05-12 14:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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...
Well, the DST is in a sense a completely different topic, but I do agree
that Unix got this right, and VMS wrong.
Johnny
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