Re: US DST Changes - 2007

I hate the time changes.  I hated them before this craziness, and I hate
them even more now.  Government nonsense ...

My understanding ...
1. We should download and apply this PTF anytime convenient

2. After , and change our time zone to the appropriate "2" time zone (with
the new DST definitions) after the first Monday this November and 1-March
next year.

Do you guys agree?

On 9/18/06, Haase, Justin C. <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Downloading and applying... Stay tuned.  I have a feeling that this fix
makes it necessary to DL and apply, then switch to a new zone.  If the
gov't decides to switch it back, you'll just pop back to the old time
zone setting.

The fix is 58k, so an ECS download is fine... I guess I'll have your
answer right now.

Currently system is on QN0600CST.
START = April/Sunday/1st/2:00:00AM
END = October/Sunday/Last/2:00:00AM
Downloaded, applied.
No changes to the QN0600CST.
Added the QN0600CST2.
QN0600CST2 settings are as follows:
START = March/Sunday/2nd/2:00:00AM
END = November/Sunday/1st/2:00:00AM

So - you have to DL and apply, and then ***AFTER THE FIRST SUNDAY IN
NOVEMBER*** switch to one of the new zones.


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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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The title for PTF SI24717 is "Additional time zones for United States"
http://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/9939a36675eadb978625710200584cbd
/11ff964a7d83baac862571c500528178?OpenDocument

For example, I am on QN0500EST.  I don't see any changes to that.  I do
see a set of new ones:
   QN0500EST3 Eastern Standard Time / Eastern Daylight Time
   QN0600CST2 Central Standard Time / Central Daylight Time
   QN0700MST3 Mountain Standard Time / Mountain Daylight Time
   QN0800PST2 Pacific Standard Time / Pacific Daylight Time
   QN0900AST2 Alaska Standard Time / Alaska Daylight Time
   QN1000HAS2 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time / Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight
Time

Will this handle any date changes on the existing time zones?

Rob Berendt
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Go here:  http://tinyurl.com/fmfwj

It's an APAR from IBM about the DST changes for 2007 for the US.

V5R3 PTF = SI24716
V5R4 PTF = SI24717

And before the deluge comes, daylight saving time ends in 2006 at 1:59am
on October 29th.  Go to the following links for info on the why and
when, as well as calculators for US and EU.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Search the archives of midrange.com on recommended ways to "fall back"
and how the newer hardware and OS versions do it for you.

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation