On 8-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: > Our mainframe is on GMT. But users cannot understand GMT, so we use the > CLOCKnn member of PARMLIB and the UNIX/LE TZ so that the displayed time > is "local". The last time I tried to have GMT displayed (with a 24 hour > clock) I almost lost my life as the peasants (users - even other IT > people!) formented rebellion. What is sooo difficult about 14:39 Zulu? > For US Central, just subtract 5 or 6 (daylight saving or not), then if > > 12, subtract 12. Oh well, "dumb/ignorant end-users" == "cheaper > employees" == "greater profit" == "bigger bonus for the important > people"(not me)
Maybe ESPN will change user's use of times. Sports fans keep getting times given in Eastern Daylight Time. Or when I listen to the BBC, it's 6 hours ahead of me right now - but will change when I have to reset my clocks. When customers are spread out, communication works better when they use the same clock. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
