Re: Daylight Savings Time

["Albert York" <albertyork@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a progran which runs every Sunday morning at 2 AM. When it determines 
that it is the correct Sunday for DST it adds or subtracts an hour from the 
current time.

Albert York

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B Hamren" <bhamren@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Daylight Savings Time
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:48:57 -0500
>
>
> Every half year the owner comes in to work and switches the clock on our
> iSeries box as well as some servers when the time changes. I understand he
> has been doing this for much longer than the 2+ years I have been here. I am
> looking into automating it this year. I am fine with the servers and even
> our old W2K PC's. The iSeries, however, will need to be done manually as far
> as I can see.
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/globalization/dst.html
> has IBM information for DST and the PTF's needed for it. It tells about the
> correct QTIMZON system value for each place. In our case, in Ohio, I would
> use QN0500EST3.
>
> The problem with this is that quite some months ago, while doing some
> reading in preparation for my V5R4 upgrade, I came across this system value,
> which on our system is set to Q0000UTC with an offset of +00:00. After I
> changed it to the "correct" value, some of our packages started giving bad
> times. In particular our QualComm system for communicating with trucks went
> wonky. I needed to change it back ASAP. I cannot change this system value
> now.
>
> As far as I can see, I don't need to install the DST PTF's and should just
> leave things as they are and have my boss, the owner, change the time
> manually.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks.
>
> Blair Hamren
>
>
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