On 07/20/09 13:57, Bob Cronin wrote:
Is there a way to coax the TimeStamp stage to render the timestamps it
produces in UTC? At present I am doing local-to-UTC conversion using some
laborious Rexx code and found myself wishing for something more efficient
Underreacher!
o This should be a requirement for the Rexx time() and date() functions
as well as for Pipelines.
o There are only 3 nice numbers: 0, 1, and as many as you want. 2 is not
one of them. Rather than giving the programmer the choice of 2 time
zones, the choice should be of any of 24 (more, actually) time zones.
This problem is well solved in systems from other vendors:
http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
--gil
