RE: With the upcoming time change....

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis

The matter of  "Daylight Savings Time awareness" was much discussed fairly
recently. I guess se didn't have much to do back in June  ;-)

The main issue, as I understand it, is time-dependent processes. ROBOT, for
one, should be shut down, then the change made, then restarted, so that you
don't either miss or double-run something.

Vern

At 07:40 AM 10/25/02 -0400, you wrote:

> This is one of the areas I find amusing about the AS/400 system.  It's
> amusing only because it's easily overcome and not really in the nuisance
> category.
>
> I am not aware of any other system where both UTC offset and local time
> must both be specified for proper operation (you only need one of these if
> the internal time is maintained at GMT)... and also aware of no other
> system that isn't "Daylight Savings Time aware."  (oh, I take that back....
> IBM mainframes suffer from the same shortsightedness.  And DOS from back
> when the earth was still cooling.)
>
> I keep thinking that one day IBM will wake up and resolve this, but then
> what would I have to complain about two times every year?   Of course, I
> could always move back home to Indiana, where they don't bother with such
> nonsense.... hmmm....  :)
>
> Dennis