RE: Annual Time Change Question

UTC Offset for Central Standard Time is -6:00.
UTC Offset for Central Daylight Time is -5:00.
The clock never really changes, just the offset.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:32 PM
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Subject: RE: Annual Time Change Question

We're still languishing on V5R1. The system did *not* automatically change the time during the last change. V5R1 does not have a QTIMZON system value, but it does have the QUTCOFFSET value which is correctly set (for Central Time - US) to -06:00.

I vaguely remember, when V5R1 was still new having this same issue (no automatic time change). It wasn't until we went to, I think, V5R3 (maybe
R4) that the automatic change took effect.

Jerry C. Adams
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:12 PM
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Subject: RE: Annual Time Change Question

Since a few releases back the system has automatically done this. You have to select the right time zone for QTIMZON system value.

Depending on the time zone description in use, the i5/OSR operating system can automatically adjust the local system time to observe daylight saving time (DST).

Basically you pick a value from WRKTIMZON to stick in the system value QTIMZON. Want to know more? RTM.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp
You can drop that down to 6.1 by changing a couple of characters in that url.

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From: "Tom Hightower" <tomh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 12/15/2011 01:03 PM
Subject: RE: Annual Time Change Question
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Does iSeries 6.1 do the spring forward/fall back time adjustments? We've
got a program in place that does that for us, but if the system will do it
for us instead...

TomH


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: Annual Time Change Question

No it won't. The system knows.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Chris Bipes
<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

It will run twice unless you add code to save the last run and check
to make sure it's not the same day. Quick data area to store the last
start date and optionally time.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Loeber
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Annual Time Change Question

I have a customer who submits a job to the job queue daily. It has
a wait
built into the job until a specific time of the day so that it runs
in the
middle of the night. They recently changed the start time from 23:30

to

2:30.

So, when the time springs forward, what will happen?

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