[HECnet] US DST

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-03-09 02:10, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> I must admit I haven't looked beyond 7.3, since I usually play on VAXen,
>> but I seem to remember clear signs that time is internally still really
>> localtime.
> 
>    I never said that it wasn't Johnny.  All I said was that a) VMS
> automatically adjusts for daylight savings time, and b) VMS knows what time
> zone it's in.  Anything you inferred beyond that is your own issue.
> 
>    LEGATO automatically adjusted for DST last night.  I didn't touch a thing.

But I never said it didn't, or couldn't adjust automatically. I just 
said it was using local time internally.

I did also point out that there was some automatic handling of DST, as 
well as some awareness of time zones in VMS... So it would appear we 
were saying the same thing?

   Johnny

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