>At 11:47 AM 4/17/2001 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>At 10:44 AM 4/17/2001 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>At 04:29 PM 4/17/2001 +0100, Martin Zinser wrote:
>>>>[.lib]vmsish............FAILED on test 17
>>>
>>>The vmsish test in question has to do with times, and it seems more than
>>>coincidental that you and Martin Vorlaender both encountered the failure
in
>>>Germany but I did not on my side of the pond.
>>
>>I wonder if we're being bit by either a daylight savings issue or a
positive timezone offset from GMT. Both have >gotten in the way of vmsish.t
before.
>
>Here's Martin Z.'s detailed output which he sent me privately. If these
are
>seconds then we're off by exactly 2 hours:
>
>
>not ok 17 # (stat) UTC: 987515872 VMS: 987523072
>
>$ x = 987523072 - 987515872
>$ sh sym x
> X = 7200 Hex = 00001C20 Octal = 00000016040
Just to add to the discussion, the relevant logicals on the system are
sys$timezone_differential = 3600
sys$localtime = sys$sysroot:[sys$zoneinfo.system]met.
MPJZ
