On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:31:28 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Mark Bixby
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>HP-UX does gradual clock adjustments -- see the man pages for date(1) and
>adjtime(2).
>
>- Mark B.

Mark's correct, of course, but you rarely need this in HP-UX or most
other UNIXes.  They all have their clocks running in GMT, all of the
time.  GMT does not change for "savings" time.  The machine knows its
own default timezone, and each individual can override that with his/her
own timezone.  It keeps track of historical timezone savings time info
as well.  All file timestamps, etc. are stored in GMT, but displayed to
you in your own timezone, so it is easy to keep things straight when
users are not all in the same timezone.  Plus, historical timestamps
will always be displayed to you correctly, even if countries change the
way in which they switch to/from savings time.  And, this all happens
automatically.

I can be an MPE bigot as well as the next guy/gal on this list, but I'm
afraid that HP-UX and most other UNIXes do a much better job at date and
time handling than MPE, no matter how much we hate to admit it.

***SHIELDS UP

Steve

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