Re: Daylight savings time

Hey Scott,

R u saying it is not PRATICAL to have this done at the system level by the
OS?

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Lindstrom" <SLindstrom@Pactiv.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time


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> Switching the time easy.  Deciding when to switch the time is tougher.
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> At every IBM shop I've worked at (AS/400 or mainframe), we liked that the
> system didn't automatically switch the time.  That gave us the chance to
> change the time when it logically made sense  (eg, at the end of all the
> batch, at the end of a full save, etc).
>
> Blindly switching the time at 0200 can be disruptive if you have important
> processing running at that time.
>
> Scott Lindstrom
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> I think IBM should take responsibility of this mess cause the BIG problem
> here is what Justin said about the system reliving the hour.  You will
> think
> this can be taken care of at the internal code level easily.  This is an
> issue that I think should be brought to the knowledge of people in
> Rochester
> for further explanation or to be address in the next release.  How can a
> system claim E-commerce without taking care of time "daylight saving".  Is
> there any platform out there, Non-IBM, that has the same problem?  Even
> WINDOZE took care of it.
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> Dare
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