How about this article?
http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg052406-story02.html
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On Behalf Of Bruce Vining
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:56 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Correct way to retrieve time offset from GMT
As with many things, It all depends...
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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