topic Re: SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT Recreated On Reboot in Operating System - OpenVMS

SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT Recreated On Reboot

Robert Atkinson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:24:05 GMT

I've noticed this file is recreated every time we reboot a node.

Is this normal? Should I simply just put a purge in and forget about it?

Thanks, Rob.

ALPHA_ROB$$ dir $1$DGA1001:[sys*...]SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT/tot

Directory $1$DGA1001:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.SYSEXE]

Total of 215 files, 215/31175 blocks.

Re: SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT Recreated On Reboot

Volker Halle — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:32:24 GMT

Rob,

this seems to be 'normal'. The file also gets re-created on each DST change.

The current TDF value is stored in SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT and loaded into EXE$GQ_TDF by SYSINIT early during boot.

Volker.

Re: SYS$TIMEZONE.DAT Recreated On Reboot

Robert Atkinson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:54:01 GMT

Thnaks Volker - that's what I thought.

Cheers, Rob.