Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Yet Another Solution to the ctime problem Message-ID: <6647@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 15:48:23 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6647 Posted: Wed Apr 1 15:48:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 08:31:20 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 23 Artificially setting the time off by an hour for three weeks is for the birds. (This is what several vendors are recommending.) If I wanted to set my system clock periodically to account for DST, I'd run VMS. Automatically switching to DST is not what makes UNIX better than VMS. Arthur Olson's solution may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, and when all the vendors install it, the Golden Age will be upon us. In the meantime, the vendors are correct. This is an administrative and political problem, not a technical one. Either put up with the difference, or run on GMT like the military and scientific types who *really care* what time it is. Do you want vendors and/or employees working on this crap or doing real work, fixing real bugs and adding real functionality? Steve Summit stevesu@copper.tek.com (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell I hope I bought the right relish...zzzzzzzzz..."