Re:
> Getting a difference in date/time from MPE to Posix
> :showtime
> MON, JAN  7, 2002, 10:51 AM
> $ date
> Wed Sep  5 16:51:55 UTC 2001

Looks like:

1) your hardware clock is way off (unless you wrote the email
   on September 5, 2001, and it got delayed a bit :)

   Note: the hardware clock should *always* be set to GMT (UTC) time.

2) *and* you don't have a TZ variable setup, showing what timezone
   you are in.

The former should definitely be fixed, ASAP.  There are various
methods of doing this (search HP3000-L if interested).  The short
form is:
   http://www.allegro.com/software/hp3000/allegro.html#FIXCLOCK

Basically, the free FIXCLOCK command file assumes that your "system time"
(the time reported by :SHOWTIME) is correct.  Then, when you run the
command file with your GMT offset (e.g., 8 for PST), it updates
the hardware clock to be the correct GMT.

The latter ought to be fixed.  IIRC, our system-wide logon UDC does:

   setvar tz "PST8PDT"

Stan Sieler                                           [log in to unmask]
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