Peter Prymmer wrote:
> Charles Lane wrote:
>> Peter Prymmer wrote:
>> > Charles Lane wrote:
>> >> BTW, I'm seeing failures of the vmsish test #17 that might be due to being
>> >> east of greenwich. This'll be a good opportunity to debug 'em.
>>
>> > I am curious: Are you at CERN or DESY now? What is your
>> > SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL?
>>
>> Gran Sasso lab in central Italy. Debugging Perl from 1km underground :)
> Grazie. Looking for cosmic or artificial neutrinos? Then your
> system time setting is going to be rather important isn't it?
Cosmic; but the but the event times are taken from an atomic clock slaved to
an external GPS receiver. The only problem is that the atomic clock
says "9 May 1900" since it's i/o hardware only has 2 BCD digits for the
year :)
> Watch out for DCE DTSS running. It'll muck up either UCX or Multinet
> NTP and would have to be turned off.
DTSS$CLERK? Yeah, it's running. But aside from the MULTINET logicals, it seems
that NTP *isn't*.
>>
>> I do a :
>> perl -e "print 'time is: ',(time()%86400/86400*24),' hours';"
>> and get 22.3... hours (it's 10:20 PM here). But it *should be 20.3... for
>> greenwich time -2 hrs from local.
> Hmmm... Here is what I just obtained:
> $ perl -e "print 'time is: ',(time()%86400/86400*24),' hours';"
> time is: 21.6494444444444 hours
> $ sho log sys$timezone_differential
> "SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL" = "-25200" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
> $ sho time
> 8-MAY-2000 14:39:29
Looks right for PDT (or MST)
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