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If you want the GMT/UTC offset for the system you would use the Retrieve System Value API QWCRSVAL.
If you are on V5R3 or later, you might instead want to access the GMT/UTC offset for the job. In this case you would use the Retrieve Job Information API QUSRJOBI format JOBI0600.
Currently the job information will always match the system information but in theory IBM could some day enable each job to run in it's own timezone. Part of the infrastructure for that capability was put into V5R3 where you can find job attributes such as timezone. They have not however given us the capability to actually change a job's timezone. It always "defaults" to the system timezone.
So the question becomes, what do you intend to do with the GMT offset and does the distinction between system offset and job/user offset come into play.
Hope this helps,
James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the "correct" way to retrieve the current GMT offset in RPG?
WRKSYSVAL to get QUTCOFFSET leaps to mind, but it seems to me like there
are APIs that are more appropriate.
James Rich
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