I think we had this discussion about this time last year, but I have
forgotten the conclusions (if any).
Is there any reason that the Foxboro machines (AP, WP, AW) can't have
there hardware clock set to UTC, and use the TZ ebvironment variable to
present date/time information to the operators in local time? We have
several other UNIX based systems which are set up this way, and it
avoids all the flailing around that happens twice a year.
All data on these other machines is loges in UTC, and any viewing of it
is morphed to the local time via the OS via the TZ environment
variable. This is so clean, i can't believe that it's not the way to do
it on Foxboro systeams. Or am I missing some Foxboro brain damage?
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Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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(c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
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