RE: Daylight Saving Time

Makes you mad doesn't...  That time zone line goes right around me.
Two 2 miles east or 2 mile north the time changes.  

Eurrat Saylor, Jr.

---- Original Message ----
From: jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Daylight Saving Time
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:02:54 -0500

>
>I have never had to be concerned with this in the past, but the
>Indiana
>legislature has now decreed that Indiana will begin observing DST
>this year.
>
>With the new time zone and especially time adjustment stuff available
>in
>V5R3, I thought it would be simple:  change the system value QTIMZON
>from
>QN0500EST2 to QN0500EST, the system will automajically start
>adjusting time
>before DST starts/ends, and I'm good to go, but it doesn't look that
>simple.
>
>It doesn't look like 'time adjustment' takes place automatically at
>DST
>start/end at all.  What I think happens is that because my i5 checks
>with an
>external time server every hour, the time will change in one fell
>swoop.  If
>I _don't_ check with an external time server, it won't take place at
>all.
>
>Assuming I have already changed to time zone QN0500EST, it sounds
>like I
>need to:
>
>1) On the Saturday before DST starts/ends, tell the i5 to stop
>checking
>externally for the time.
>
>2) Start a time adjustment either forward (spring) or backward (fall)
>1
>hour.
>
>3) On Monday, tell the i5 to start checking externally for the time
>again.
>
>Am I right?  Or missing something simple?
>
>Thanks and I'll be moving to Arizona.
>
>-- 
>Jeff Crosby
>Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
>P.O. Box 13369
>Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
>260-422-7531
>
>The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of
>my
>company.  Unless I say so.
>
>
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