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System Management Release Notes
This chapter contains information that applies to system maintenance and
management, performance management, and networking.
For information about new features included in this version of the software, refer
to the HP OpenVMS Version 8.4 New Features and Documentation Overview.
4.1 SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE Logical Replaces Hyphen (-) with Caret
(^)
V8.4
Starting from Version 8.2 onwards, SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE logical is modified
to replace the ’-’ character with the ’^’ character. This change is done in TDF
to support DTSS. DTSS cannot handle the commonly used UNIX ’GMT-X’
timezone rules and does not support timezone rule strings that are identical to
the timezone name.
For example, the ’GMT-1’ timezone rule generates a SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE
string of ’GMT-1’. Due to the matching rule file name of ’GMT-1’ and rule string
of ’GMT-1’ caused DTSS not to function properly.
The CRTL and DTSS components are also modified to support this change.
For example, Timezone logical before this change:
"SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE" = "CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/02,M10.4.0/03"
Timezone logical after this change:
"SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE" = "CET^1CEST^2,M3.5.0/02,M10.4.0/03"
4.2 Issues with Time Zone Configuration
V8.4
On OpenVMS Version 8.4, if you configure time zone to a zone that does not get
affected by the daylight saving time (DST) changes, it results in the following
error message on the operator’s terminal at a very high frequency:
%TDF-F-SMNSUBFAIL, Attempt to compute delta in Smithsonian time
failed, status = 001583EC, terminating.
Note
OpenVMS Version 8.4 upgrade kit is recommended only to those
customers who will be configuring their time zone to a zone that gets
affected by the DST changes.
System Management Release Notes 4–1
