RE: Beginner's Question

["Dennis Lovelady" <dlovelady@xxxxxxxx>]

If you make this change within a few seconds of the change of hour, you
risk the chance of setting system hour back two hours instead of one.

For example, if you look at your watch (or system time or whatever) and
find that it is now 8:59:50... so you do a CHGSYSVAL QHOUR 7 ... but it
takes you more than ten seconds to effect that change (for whatever
reason), you might now have the clock set to 7:00:xx.... since the system
rolled the hour up to 9 before you rolled it back to 7.

BTW: Why someone would say that using WRKSYSVAL is "easier" than CHGSYSVAL
directly is a mystery to me, but .... whatever.

HTH
Dennis





"McKay, Steve" <Steve.McKay@SouthTrust.com>@midrange.com on 10/29/2002
12:13:30 PM

Please respond to midrange-l@midrange.com

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Al Barsa wrote:

"WRKSYSVAL QHOUR and take option 2.  Don't do this close to the change of
the hour."

Al -

Why not "close to the change of the hour"?  And how close is "close"?  1
minute?  5 minutes?

Just curious,