Different times on VMS and Windows for a file
Michael Mazzoni
mmazzoni at wi.rr.com
Wed Jan 5 00:52:50 GMT 2005
Environment: VMS v7.3 on an Alpha, Samba-VMS v2.2.8.
There's a message in INSTALL.COM v2.0 1-May-1999 which says:
The time zone logical SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE (or POSIX$DEFAULT_TZ)
have not been set. One of them must be defined to reflect
your time zone and daylight saving begin and end times.
See file TIMEZONE_RULE.TXT for the correct format of
this logical.
My SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE is:
"SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE" = "CST6CDT5,M4.1.0/02,M10.5.0/02"
POSIX$DEFAULT_TZ is not defined (I don't know the format).
The times displayed by a DIRECTORY command on VMS and the
Windows Explorer are off by 6 hours. For example, VMS says the file
was created at 21:48, but Windows says 15:48.
Before upgrading to Samba-VMS v2.2.8, I used v2.0.3, and I could "fix"
this time difference by defining the logical TZ. That doesn't seem to
work with v2.2.8. In v2.0.3, this logical was referenced
in posixtim.c.
My questions are:
1) is this a Samba-VMS problem?
2) if so, how do I fix it?
3) what is the format for POSIX$DEFAULT_TZ?
4) can someone post TIMEZONE_RULE.TXT or tell me where I can find it?
5) searching all the .c files in v2.8.8 doesn't find
SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE,
so how is the time differential handled?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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