RE: Daylight savings time question. V5R3

Actually yes I have but when I was in the military.  We are in time zone
"Sierra" here in the central time zone.  I don't know if that's where
IBM got it from though and I was just pointing to QN0600S because to me
DST- Daylight Saving Time sounds more generic and year around to me then
CDT-Central Daylight Time sounds.  To me Central Daylight Time is only
during the middle half of the year when we actually have our clocks set
ahead an hour as to what the sun is actually doing.

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Subject: RE: Daylight savings time question. V5R3


Where I live, we use QN0600CST.  The CST stands for "Central Standard 
Time".  If you display the details for the QN0600CST object, you'll see 
that the standard time is described as "Central Standard Time", with CST

as an abbreviation, and "Central Daylight Time" with CDT as an abbrev.

I live in the middle of the USA (the Central time zone) and that's what 
we've always called our time zones, CST for standard and CDT for
daylight.

I'm a little confused as to why you think QN0600S would make more sense 
for you.  Do you typically use the abbreviation "S" to refer to your
time 
zone?  I've never heard of that.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, John Wallroff wrote:

> So, what is more correct for a simple shop here in the middle of the
> good ol' USA?  The terms I remember being used in dealing with
Daylight
> savings time here have to do with what phase you're in.  As in in the
> winter here we say "Central Standard Time" and in the summer we would
be
> in "Central Daylight Time".
>
> Going by what you've told me Bruce I'd say that QN0600S would be the
one
> I'd want to use.  Is this the option most US Central Time Zone shops
use
> that don't have to worry about people in other time zones using their
> system?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Vining
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> Subject: Re: Daylight savings time question. V5R3
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> The difference is the name.  Not all countries in the same time zone
> (UTC
> offset of -6 for instance) may use the same abbreviations and names.
> Since
> these names/abbreviations can show up on panels, reports, etc it's
> important to have the name match the expectations of the country where
> the
> system is being used.  This is one of the reasons there are so many
> *TIMZON descriptions supplied with i5/OS.
>
> Bruce Vining
>
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> Other then the "Daylight Savings Time Name" what exactly is the
> difference between the time zone identifiers
>
> "QN0600S" Central Standard Time (S) - Daylight Saving Time (DST)
> And
> "QN0600CST" Central Standard Time (CST) - Central Daylight Time (CDT)
>
> They both seem to have the automatic daylight savings time "Enable
> Daylight Saving Time" options setup the same.  What am I missing,
what's
> the difference?
>
> John.
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