RE: Changing the system clock this weekend...

Kenneth--

Your wish has been granted!

Rob Berendt wrote:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzati/rzatitimeadj.htm

It's supposed to gradually adjust and have no duplicate times. Read the above.

It says (in part):

If you need to adjust the system time by two or fewer hours, use the time adjustment function to change the system time.

A time adjustment is preferred over manually changing the time of day system value because it incrementally speeds up or slows down the rate at which time moves forward rather than making one single, instantaneous change in time. A large jump in time, either forward or backward, can cause unpredictable errors if jobs are concurrently accessing system time.

If your system time is off more than 2 hours and you do not need to change the system time immediately, you can use multiple time adjustments to reach the desired time value. For example, if your system time is off 3 hours, you can make a 2-hour time adjustment and a 1-hour adjustment to make a total adjustment of 3 hours.

I haven't used it...  and I'm curious to see how well it works!

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

One observation... It really shouldn't be this difficult to make a DST time change on the most advanced application server on the planet. I hope a future release of OS400 will combine the automated changing to and from DST, with the "Time Adjustment" feature so we can SCHEDULE a slow adjustment of the system clock over a few hours... After all, there will always be time sensitive software and processes running on our systems. I can only hope that IBM hears my plea. <smile>

Kenneth