Re: Time zone differences

["Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Traditional systems (like the 400 and mainframes) run time zone on local
time.  More modern systems (Unix, Windoze) run on GMT, and calculate the
offset to the current time by, job, user, or whatever.

It would be fantastic if the 400 could pull this off, but I suspect that it
would take at least two releases to add this support, and the *CRUMMY
sysval value QUTCOFFSET would have to be somewhat abandoned.

Al

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                      "Bruce Vining"                                            
                                                          
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There has been some discussion on this list in the past of being able to
define what time zone the system is running in (with things like DST
observance), and then as a possible follow-on activity to allow individual
jobs to run in distinct time zones.  Individual job settings could
theoretically be controlled by user profile, job description, the subsystem
the job entered, a job attribute set by an initial program, and the like.

Speaking only for myself,
Bruce




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...
2)  Didn't someone allude to the possibility that this will be resolved in
a future release?  Timezone by user or some such thing.
...
Rob Berendt







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