Re: QWCRTVTZ givng wrong data for time zone.

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you load PTFs?

7.1 came out prior to the changes in DST if I'm not mistaken...



On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:48 PM, rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We just upgraded to V7R1M0 and the time description API QWCRTVTZ is giving
> the wrong data for EST - see below
>
> EVAL tzds
> TZDS.ZONE = 'QN0500EST '
> TZDS.SYSZONE = '1'
> TZDS.SUPDST = '1'
> TZDS.UTCOFFSET = -300
> TZDS.STDABBR = 'EST       '
> TZDS.STDFULL = 'Eastern Standard Time
> TZDS.DSTABBR = 'EDT       '
> TZDS.DSTFULL = 'Eastern Daylight Time
> TZDS.STDMSGID = 'CPX091E'
> TZDS.DSTMSGID = 'CPX091F'
> TZDS.MSGFILE = 'QCPFMSG   '
> TZDS.MSGFLIB = '*LIBL     '
> TZDS.DSTSTRMON = 04.
> TZDS.DSTSTRDOWK = 7
> TZDS.DSTSTRRDMO = '1'
> TZDS.DSTSTRTIME = 020000.
> TZDS.DSTENDMON = 10.
> TZDS.DSTENDDOWK = 7.
> TZDS.DSTENDRDMO = 'L'
> TZDS.DSTENDTIME = 020000.
>
> QN0500EST is Eastern Standard Time, so I know I'm getting the proper zone.
>
> Offset should be -5, not -3.
> The DST start month is 3, not 4.
> day of week is right at 7, but day of month should be 2 (second sunday)
> didn't check for the DST end dates, but I'm guessing they're wrong too.
>
> I double checked my data structure against the V7 api finder and it's
> good.  I can't guarantee it worked just before our upgrade, but it's not
> working now.
>
> Any ideas?  thanks in advance.
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