RE: Java time on AS/400

I for one would certainly like to know what this "other stuff" is.  And from
the number of responses this question received, it's clear that the
"hardcode your timezone" approach is extremely common.  It's the approach I
ended up with.  I looked at my user profile on my V4R5 machine and I don't
see any attributes from which one could deduce my timezone.  And Java 1.3 on
my machine is in fact indifferent to QUTCOFFSET, which I can tell because it
is either 8 hours out or 7 hours out, depending on whether it's daylight
savings time or not.

Franco, you're in Switzerland?  The name for your time zone is
"Europe/Zurich", you can put that in where the examples had "EST".

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Loen [mailto:lwloen@us.ibm.com]
Sent: March 8, 2002 06:26
To: java400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Java time on AS/400



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


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