> One way to fix it is [...]

   Please let us know when you get that to work.  Just in case it might
work, I tried it on my spare/experimental XP1000 system (after "ncl
disable dtss", after the usual "%SET-E-NOTSET, error modifying time
-SYSTEM-E-TIMENOTSET, time service enabled; enter a time service command
to update the time" objection), and it seemed to help not at all.

> [...] STABACKIT [...]

   These are Alpha, not VAX, systems.