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From: payne@watdcsu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Changing from daylight time to standard time
Message-ID: <4026@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 16:11:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 16:11:18 1987
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Reply-To: payne@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Payne)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <946@nmtsun.nmt.edu> mwlcs423@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes:
>	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.

Don't know about accounting problems, but resetting the time sure screws up
DECnet.  For this reason, I never do it automatically.  I first have to shut
down the network (and various associated stuff).  Then and ONLY then do I
change the time.

Doug