> Yes, definitely set it to GMT. Can you or anyone else provide a reference to a Redbook or other IBM document to back up the assertion that setting the TOD clock to GMT or UTC was IBM's design intention or recommended practice?
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best practice for TOD clock On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 08:31 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > I'm engaged in an internal dispute about best practice for the TOD clock: > should it be set to universal time (or whatever GMT is now called) with the > appropriate local offset, or alternatively, to local time (with an offset of > zero)? Yes, definitely set it to GMT. This makes semiannual DST changes a snap. And your Unix environment wants GMT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
