geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (06/28/90)
Quoth TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) (in <90177.101607TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>): #[ Long discussion of problem with TZ for PCs without clock/calendars ] Sure there are bits in PCNFS.SYS to do with DST. There are also things like a "seconds_west_of_gmt" variable. Unfortunately, these things move around from release to release. Before I hack together another little utility (which I haven't got time to do before I leave for England] let's try another approach. Write a little program that reads a date in the format Wed Jun 27 13:03:55 1990 on its stdin and writes out a date in the format 06-27-90 on stdout. Child's play. Let's call this "fixdate.exe". In your AUTOEXEC.BAT, after PC-NFS is started, run RDATE <yourserver> | FIXDATE > \NFS\SAVEDATE Then in your AUTOEXEC.BAT before PC-NFS is started, add TYPE \NFS\SAVEDATE | DATE This will work except on the days that DST goes on and off. On those dates, reboot twice first thing in the morning. I assume you have RDATE.EXE. If not, it's widely available on the net (from Baylor Colege of Medicine, for example). Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) <<<< PC-NFS (*not* PC/NFS)is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems >>>> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy" - and every one of them requires an IP address...