Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Message-ID: <1362@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 14:28:46 EST Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1362 Posted: Wed Oct 28 14:28:46 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 21:21:49 EST References: <8710241907.AA29503@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <946@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <4709@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 22 Summary: was Re: Changing from daylight time to standard time In article <4709@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes: >Simply have DEC maintain in kernel >all times in a fixed timezone (GMT?) and have each site >specify their timezone and if they are on DST. This way >a file created on VAX A in London will appear to have the >same creation date on VAX B in Los Angeles if it is transfered. HORRORS! What do you think this is, a colony of the British Empire? It's bad enough that the quaint ancient practice of referring to Her Majesty's Royal Greenwich Observatory's local time as a standard hasn't died yet. Worse, you folks now want modern, state-of-the-art operating systems such as VMS to be defiled in this manner. I'm afraid the UNIX users are slowly beginning to corrupt the pure minds that used to dwell, free from tainted thoughts, in VMS-only shops. What will they want next--I/O redirection, pipes, forks??? Leave VMS alone! Daylight savings time is an ancient concept that originated in the blackouts of war-ravaged London. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi