RE: With the upcoming time change....

Dennis

The matter of  "Daylight Savings Time awareness" was much discussed fairly
recently. I guess se didn't have much to do back in June  ;-)

The main issue, as I understand it, is time-dependent processes. ROBOT, for
one, should be shut down, then the change made, then restarted, so that you
don't either miss or double-run something.

Vern

At 07:40 AM 10/25/02 -0400, you wrote:

This is one of the areas I find amusing about the AS/400 system.  It's
amusing only because it's easily overcome and not really in the nuisance
category.

I am not aware of any other system where both UTC offset and local time
must both be specified for proper operation (you only need one of these if
the internal time is maintained at GMT)... and also aware of no other
system that isn't "Daylight Savings Time aware."  (oh, I take that back....
IBM mainframes suffer from the same shortsightedness.  And DOS from back
when the earth was still cooling.)

I keep thinking that one day IBM will wake up and resolve this, but then
what would I have to complain about two times every year?   Of course, I
could always move back home to Indiana, where they don't bother with such
nonsense.... hmmm....  :)

Dennis