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  3. October 2002

Re: Dealing with changing time

Exactly.   That's exactly what Unix (and I believe Windows as well) does.
It keeps track of time in GMT, and when you request it for display
purposes, it applies the timezone.    When daylight savings changes, it
just changes the timezone.

I don't understand why OS/400 does things so strangely.  Probably because
"it's always been done that way".


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Booth Martin wrote:
>
>  It is only once a year that the time goes backwards, and then it does so
> only in places with Daylight Savings Time.   I understood that GMT is a
> constant time, not reflecting Daylight Savings Time.   If so, why isn't the
> machine set to GMT and timestamps figured from that time, not from the
> offset?  Displayed time is subject to location, but what's that got to do
> with machine time?
>

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