Re: Java time on AS/400

["Larry Loen" <lwloen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Franco Biaggi wrote:

> hello,
> running java apps on AS/400 V4R5M0 JDK1.3 the time is an hour before !!!
> The system time is correct and the system value QUTCOFFSET is set correct
(+1);

While many have given programs to set the time to a particular time zone,
this should not be necessary if QUTCOFFSET is correct, at least not in my
experience of it.

Check your user profile (or the user profile underwhich your job executes).

There are settings for "locale" and "region" to enable OS/400 machines to
deal with geographic dispersion of the underlying people who use it.  I've
found a lot of stuff is indifferent to whether these are set right
(including QUTCOFFSET itself), but Java is not indifferent to at least
QUTCOFFSET and it probably needs the other stuff set right, too.



Larry W. Loen  -   Senior Linux, Java, and iSeries Performance Analyst
                          Dept HP4, Rochester MN