Re: User Profile - Timezone

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My customers have facilities across multiple time zones.  I define every
remote device (i.e., no QPADEVxxxx) and include a location code, which
could then be tied to a time zone.  DDS's *DATE and *TIME are system
values, so you'll have to add code to your green-screen programs to
reference the device's location if you want the local date and time on your
display.  All my timestamps are system time.

It's very surprising IBM ignored time zones for such a long time--SQL
forced it.  It's still a surprise that IBM hasn't added time zone/time
offset support into the LOCALE option.  It's a fool's errand to think IBM
would do anything to DDS at this time.  Like it or not, HTML is way smarter
than DDS.

Before I'd go down the path of changing display files and programs to show
local dates and times, I'd look at converting the app to a browser-based
solution.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM Shane Reeves via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just wondering if there a system way to define a different timezone for a
> particular user ID or group, in order to track/display the user's local
> time for activities rather than system's local time.  Or is this something
> I'd have to develop 'manually'?
>
> Thanks
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