Thanks for the correction John, sorry about that. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer Western Metal Supply NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best practice for TOD clock > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll > > [ snip ] HOWEVER: (and this may be a BIG issue) If you are > geographically located West of the meridian, when you convert over to > UTC time, you will need to be down for the number of hours west you > are, in order to prevent duplicate timestamps from occuring. ITYM East -- West offsets from UTC are negative, so converting from local to UTC would *advance* the TOD clock, not retard it. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
