RE: With the upcoming time change....

This is one of the areas I find amusing about the AS/400 system.  It's
amusing only because it's easily overcome and not really in the nuisance
category.

I am not aware of any other system where both UTC offset and local time
must both be specified for proper operation (you only need one of these if
the internal time is maintained at GMT)... and also aware of no other
system that isn't "Daylight Savings Time aware."  (oh, I take that back....
IBM mainframes suffer from the same shortsightedness.  And DOS from back
when the earth was still cooling.)

I keep thinking that one day IBM will wake up and resolve this, but then
what would I have to complain about two times every year?   Of course, I
could always move back home to Indiana, where they don't bother with such
nonsense.... hmmm....  :)

Dennis






"Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>@midrange.com on 10/25/2002
07:18:13 AM

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Thanks Bob,

I apologize for the error.  I've always been time-challenged.

Andy

> On Behalf Of Bob Larkin
> Subject: Re: With the upcoming time change....
>
> I belive the offset goes to -04:00. I am in CST, and we go from -06:00
> to -05:00.
> Bob
>
> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse wrote:
>
> >Mike,
> >
> >Both.
> >
> >If you were in the Eastern Time Zone of the US, your offset would
change
> >from -05:00 to -06:00 and your time would change to one hour earlier.
> >
> >Because the Universal Time doesn't do Daylight Savings Time, they
both
> >have to change.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Andy Nolen-Parkhouse.