RE: Daylight savings time -- MIDRANGE-L

I tend to agree it is not practical to have the OS change the time, I have
had batch jobs running on windoze get messed up because it automatically
adjusts the time - I have then had to work around the OS, which is not
always
convenient - I too prefer to KNOW when the clock changes so I can do it to
fit my business needs, not the needs of some "nerdier" programmer than
myself -
and that would be pretty "nerdy".

I do hope that IBM never puts that into place, and hope that other mainframe
and other OS's do not ever put it into place, unless there is an override to
not do it automatically - there are those out there who would rather be
a conformist, then a take charge control freak such as myself (all tongue in
cheek)

just my 2cents (worth about 1/2 cent in todays market)

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dare
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:43 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time


Hey Scott,

R u saying it is not PRATICAL to have this done at the system level by the
OS?

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Lindstrom" <SLindstrom@Pactiv.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time


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> Switching the time easy.  Deciding when to switch the time is tougher.
>
> At every IBM shop I've worked at (AS/400 or mainframe), we liked that the
> system didn't automatically switch the time.  That gave us the chance to
> change the time when it logically made sense  (eg, at the end of all the
> batch, at the end of a full save, etc).
>
> Blindly switching the time at 0200 can be disruptive if you have important
> processing running at that time.
>
> Scott Lindstrom
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> I think IBM should take responsibility of this mess cause the BIG problem
> here is what Justin said about the system reliving the hour.  You will
> think
> this can be taken care of at the internal code level easily.  This is an
> issue that I think should be brought to the knowledge of people in
> Rochester
> for further explanation or to be address in the next release.  How can a
> system claim E-commerce without taking care of time "daylight saving".  Is
> there any platform out there, Non-IBM, that has the same problem?  Even
> WINDOZE took care of it.
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> Dare
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