Re: Time Zone and DST changes

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

CRTTIMZON can create a new timezone for you, and you need to give it an
offset from Grenwich, whith no summer time, or with a zero change


Pete Helgren wrote:
> I happen to be at a customer who has a time zone that is not covered by 
> IBM's time zone settings so I have had to make manual adjustments twice 
> a year to keep these folks on the correct time.  For reasons no one can 
> adequately explain, this customer (a native Alaskan community) doesn't 
> change with DST.  The history is that they always stay on Pacific 
> Standard time and don't change.  So for part of the year (like now) they 
> are on the same time as Alaska Daylight Savings Time but when DST ends, 
> they don't change, which puts them on Pacific Standard time.
>
> I have tweaked the settings again and set them for QTIMZON = QN0800U 
> and  QUTCOFFSET = -08:00 but I don't know if the selection will prevent 
> the OS from adjusting the time when DST ends on Sunday.  In other words, 
> how do I *prevent* the clock from changing?