RE: Java time on AS/400 -- JAVA400-L

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First the program is not written for the AS/400 and must be platform 
indepentend.

Setting the QUTCOFFSET to 00.00 solve the problem, but I do not know wich 
others problems this may cause.

Thi is a bug in the Java implementation on AS/400.

If I run the progam under Win2k I have no problems and the time setting is set 
to GMT + 1.

Thanks to alle for the answers.

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 08:25:18 -0800, Clapham, Paul wrote:

>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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