The best you should hope for is a switch to set as one can now do in
Windows 95. Some of our states and not a few countries do not use DST,
and there are nasty implications for machines on a network that crosses
timezones or other such boundaries. Also, there can be other problems:
you certainly don't want jobs skipped or repeated as you spring forward
or fall-back, but you also don't want to spring forward, stay with the
original schedule adjusted up one hour, and then find your systems
running the 7AM jobs when the day starts at 8AM, for those shops with no
slack in their nightly batch processing. MPE handles this better than
say UNIX, as a friend who had to find this logic in the source code told
me, but this one can still bite back.

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>From:  Gary Jackson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Tuesday, March 04, 1997 7:10 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [HP3000-L] Daylight savings time
>
>In light of the SETCLOCK command, does anyone know if MPE/iX will ever
>automatically
>change to/from daylight savings time?
>Gary Jackson
>Nevada CSOS
>(916) 478-6407 - voice
>(916) 478-6410 - fax
>