Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!payne
From: payne@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS, DST, and "snake oil"
Message-ID: <4626@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 12:49:04 GMT
References: <576641111.0.IHERSHMAN@VX1.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: payne@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Payne)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <576641111.0.IHERSHMAN@VX1.GBA.NYU.EDU> IHERSHMAN@VX1.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes:
>I'm tired of applying Daylight Savings Time manually on my VMS
>systems, while my DECSYSTEM-20 -- and even that "snake oil" operating
>system called Unix -- barely bat an eyelash.
>...
>C'mon guys!  To do it "right" just add three SYSGEN parameters:
>
>	DST_ON  - date and time DST should take effect
>
>	DST_OFF - date and time DST should cease
>
>	DST_INTERVAL - number of minutes added/subtracted
>		       by DST_ON and DST_OFF
>
>...

Sure, and now all I have to do is change a SYSGEN parameter twice a
year, instead of the time.  What's the diff?  I guess I get to do it a
little ahead of time, BUT I still have to remember to do it.  And if DEC
does it in their usual style I'll have to reboot as well :-)

Doug