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From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: files date.
Summary: Yet another good reason to change file dates
Keywords: system date errors
Message-ID: <2527@crash.cts.com>
Date: 11 Feb 88 19:33:11 GMT
Expires: 11 Feb 88 19:51:05 GMT
References: <8802091036.AA20109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2072@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2076@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego, CA
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On a system that is rebooted frequently... especially with bootstraps of
other operating systems in the interim... the system TimeOfYear clock will
often get munged, causing VMS to prompt for the date and time when it comes
up.  Within about two to three weeks of the start of each new year, it is
common for people to enter the wrong year in this date/time string.  The
system runs fine but the erroneous timestamps play Hob with accounting, 
make/MMS/etc., and so on... It's useful to be able to change the timestamps
on files created during the "time warp".