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Subject: RE: Daylight saving time - how to know if in effect
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:19:44 +0000
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Depends on the OS. There are some stoners out in Redmond who think they have developed an OS and they call it Windows. It says my UTC is -5:00 (EST). After this weekend it will still say my UTC is -5:00. They say I need to manually adjust for DST.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/884804/how-to-convert-utc-time-to-local-time

However real operating systems report the UTC accurately and do not require you to manually adjust for DST. On IBM i QUTCOFFSET will return -04:00. After this weekend it will return -05:00.

Rob Berendt

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