Re: Fall Time Change.

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francis Lapeyre wrote:
> 
> Francis (Great name, BTW):
> 
> It so happens, that three years ago, I wrote an application to do just
> what you want. It was published in Midrange Computing in March 1994.
> 
> You can download the code at:
> 
> http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mc/prog/94/
> 
> Scroll down to March, and click on "Automate Daylight Savings Time
> Changes". Your browser will prompt you to save the file.
> 
> Caveats:
> 
> Depending on what time zone you are in, you need to change the system
> value QUTCOFFSET to match. (If you are in the Eastern time zone, right
> now, that would be '-0400'.
> 
> You need to change the value &STDOFFSET (I think) in the first program
> (DST001CL) for the offset to match the offset you will have when you
> are
> on standard time. For Eastern, that's '-0500'.
> 
> You must run it under a profile that has at least *SECADM authority.
> 
> Hope it works for you..
> 

You can download it, but unfortunately it won't do you any good.
When you try to run the .exe (suppose it's supposed to be a
self-extracting program) you get an error message that it's not a valid
Win32 application.  Won't run under a DOS window either.

... Neil Palmer                                      AS/400~~~~~      
... NxTrend Technology -Canada       ____________          ___  ~     
... Thornhill, Ontario, Canada       |OOOOOOOOOO| ________  o|__||=   
... Phone: (905) 731-9079 x238       |__________|_|______|_|______)   
... url:http://www.NxTrend.com        oo      oo   oo  oo   OOOo=o\   
... mailto:NPalmer@NxTrend.com     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com
|    and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---