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- From: longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Date incorrect after reboot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.092134.22@sfpp.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 09:21:34 PST
- References: <1993Jan5.215635.6062@odin.corp.sgi.com> <20315005@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
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- Organization: Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines
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- In article <20315005@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
- > davo@homer.corp.sgi.com (David Ferrise) writes:
- >> After contacting DEC they informed us that this is a *known* bug and that every
- >> good VAX shop will do a SET TIME after the first of the year before attempting
- >> any reboot.
- >
- > Every good shop runs SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN.COM which darn well does it for
- > them! What makes them think that doing it yourself will help?
- >
- > --
- > Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555) don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
- > Network Manager, Computing Services Centre don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
- > Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand +64-4-495-5052
- --
- Yeah... My VAX systems NEVER crash, so why bother? ;-)
-
- Seriously - you are correct that SHUTDOWN.COM does the SET TIME, but systems
- do occasionally crash, lose power, etc. Issuing the SET TIME shortly after
- midnight after the new year change covers you in case of such a disaster.
-
- -Bob
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- Bob Longo (longo@sfpp.com)
- Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines
- Los Angeles, CA
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