Re: VMS Software Bootcamp 2024

On 2024-09-18, Tom Wade <nospam@void.blackhole.mx> wrote:

On 2024-09-18 00:25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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But it?s not ISO 8601.

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Very true, but better than the AM/PM stuff, and unambiguous (unlike
mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy).

VMS date/time formats are much more readable, but the main problem with
VMS timekeeping is that it doesn't have a local timezone offset from a base
GMT/UTC timepoint built into it.

Unix got this right and VMS did not.

Simon.

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