Re: multiple time zones on 1 AS/400

At 08:29 AM 11/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I have an AS/400 on the East coast, supporting users on the West coast
>(and East coast).  I'm running into a problem at month end, when my West
>coast users need to work until midnight (their time) to ship orders.  My
>AS/400's date has changed to be the new month, since it is after
>midnight in the East, so my West coast users transactions are now dated
>with the wrong month.  Anyone else dealing with East/West time zone
>issues?
>
Your solutions are not good.  The AS/400 does a poor job of arbitrating
dates from multiple time zones.  Depending on how pervasive the problem is,
and also how are you getting the date (they work differently from RPG to
OS/400), you might consider patching the application.

Al



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