From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Time of year for kernel changes
Article-I.D.: ittvax.479
Posted: Fri Oct 29 19:05:47 1982
Received: Sat Oct 30 05:17:23 1982
References: tpdcvax.190

We used to have that same problem too.  I got around it by having our
own shutdown procedure that printed a reminder to the console.  If I
really got bothered by this, I think I would leave the kernel alone and
change instead:

	/etc/shutdown:	to take an argument to mean convert to VMS
			time before killing it.
	/etc/rc:	to set the date back to UNIX time

You could get slightly clever by having the program run from /etc/rc
first check the modification dates on some active system files to make
sure UNIX has been down for at least an hour, so it won't reset the
time when rebooting from a crash.  We do something like that now to
maintain an automatic system downtime log.

Since all this is done from user mode, you can make them as clever
as you like about Daylight Savings Time.

Or, you could finesse the problem by not running VMS so often ...

	- Alan S. Watt