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From: mwlcs423@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Changing from daylight time to standard time
Message-ID: <946@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 17:57:15 EST
Article-I.D.: nmtsun.946
Posted: Sun Oct 25 17:57:15 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 01:53:19 EST
References: <8710241907.AA29503@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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Summary: A SIMPLE way to do this

In article <8710241907.AA29503@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, R021JM9W@VB.CC.CMU.EDU (Jim Murawski) writes:
> 
>         In most of North America, standard time starts this Sunday
>         (October 25th) at 2:00.  
>	[ much verbage deleted ]
How about the command(s) :

$ SET TIME="+01:00:00"		! In the fall
$ SET TIME="-01:00:00"		! In the spring

These work well and are much faster/easier to understand (they also work
interactively.)

	One point I'd like to get straighten out.  I've done this a few time,
and have had no problems, but I'm not sure if it is cool.  I have heard horror
stories about people getting charged for one hour of cpu time when the system
manager change the time on them.  Has this ever happened to anyone under VMS?
If so, then is there a better way of doing daylight savings stuff.  I know
this can mess up connect times, if your accounting software isn't smart enough,
but we don't charge for connect time.


				Warner Losh