RE: Time Zones

["Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would add a field to the user profile, TimeZone, with 2 special values
of *sysval or *jobd.  Otherwise it could be a valid time zone defined
with the add/chg/dlt/wrktimzon commands.  I would also add a field to
the jobd that could state *sysval or a valid time zone.

Conversion of existing Time stamp fields in data bases would be the hard
part.  A utility to convert for a file or all files in a library would
be great.


Chris Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
The idea sounds great, but how does one implement it on an iSeries where
it
is highly likely that users will be in at least 3 time zones?  Do you
connect the offset to the user ID, the workstation? to each individual
sign-on session?  Or maybe you use GMT as a standard and teach the users
about offsets?  The whole conversation must be a constant lunchtime
conversation in the IBM labs.  UNIX does it, but is the UNIX solution
useful
for an iSeries instalation?