RE: Time Zones

Chris,

I snipped this from an article I found...
http://www.iseries400experts.com/aiw/02-2304.jsp


      Time zone support. Time zone support will be enhanced over the next
few iSeries hardware releases, starting with V5R3 (IW 1/5/04). "The next
release of iSeries hardware will ship in 65 time zones, and when you go to
the next release of OS/400 (V5R3), you will have a variety of different ways
to tell the system what time zone you are running in. In future releases,
you will be able to run different jobs in different time zones, all in a
single partition," says an Insider source close to IBM.

      This means that the underlying machine runs in GMT, although customer
interfaces appear in local time, and different systems can negotiate time in
different manners. For example, when the Paris office is attempting to
negotiate time with the Tokyo office, they will be able to accurately
negotiate the time difference.




Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Time Zones


There is no other system, just a link to the system in CA.  We are
opening an office in Tennessee.  How can I have those employees in
Tennessee in their local TZ while the CA office stays in it's local TZ.

When is IBM going to add a TZ value for user profiles / job
descriptions.

(Frankly I would record all transactions in UTC and display local TZ for
the users but not my choice.)


Chris Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
There is also QTIMZONE this automatically updates for daylight savings.
I would think if you have specified the other system as the same as home
office, it should stay in sync.