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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I believe that even in Foxview 99.2 you can just kill the Foxview on
the console and it should respawn itself. If it does not come back you can
restart it and things are ok. It would be nice if you could set the time from
the command line so you can have a machine automatically adjust the time when you need
it done.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Lowell, Tim: [<A
HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:49 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: RE: Daylight Savings time (again)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Brain damage, I like that one...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>No, Foxboro I/A does not use the TZ variable. If you are
especially unlucky</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to be using FoxView, you cannot even set the time backwards for the
end of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Daylight Saving Time, or you will freeze any AW51 or WP51 running
FoxView.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Even the developers of FoxDraw/FoxView blame the developers of I/A
for not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>using the TZ variable right in the Release Notes, so what are you
gonna do?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Well, what we are going to do is run all winter an hour ahead, just
like we</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>did last winter. We have no alternative. I hear from the
TAC web site that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>FoxView 99.2.1 only requires a restart of FoxView if you set the
time</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>backwards, as opposed to a full AW/WP51 reboot. Anybody know if
that is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>true? That we could do, with some advanced planning and script
files.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Rebooting all 17 of our AW/WP51's is not an option.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Tim</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>From: Stan
Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Friday,
October 20, 2000 10:38 AM</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
SIZE=2>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
SIZE=2>Subject: Daylight Savings time
(again)</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>I think we had this discussion
about this time last year,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>but I have</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>forgotten the conclusions (if
any).</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Is there any reason that the
Foxboro machines (AP, WP, AW)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>can't have</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>there hardware clock set to
UTC, and use the TZ ebvironment</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>variable to</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>present date/time information
to the operators in local</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>time? We have</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>several other UNIX based
systems which are set up this way,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and it</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>avoids all the flailing around
that happens twice a year.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>All data on these other
machines is loges in UTC, and any</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>viewing of it</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>is morphed to the local time
via the OS via the TZ</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>environment</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>variable. This is so clean, i
can't believe that it's not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the way to do</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>it on Foxboro systeams. Or am
I missing some Foxboro brain</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>damage?</FONT>
<BR>
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