Walt Farrell wrote: >The problem with the transition from daylight-saving time to standard time, >Elardus, is that the hour from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. (0100 to 0200) happens twice: >once while you're on daylight saving time, and once when you've switched back >to standard time. (Assuming I got the times, and the direction correct. I >think I was wrong about that in my prior note.) So I don't think a >table-driven approach can work.
Thanks for kindly reply to my bad ( ???? :-D ) suggestion. I forgot about those two incidents of switching. >You can infer whether you've made the transition if you examine the records >carefully, and note the times you see in them, and detect the change by >noticing overlapping records (one record that says, e.g., 0159 followed by a >record that says 0101. But if you don't see that kind of change you can't be >sure whether the first set of 0100-0200 was daylight saving time or not. And >that only works for the SMF record date/time, not for the reader start >date/time fields. Very interesting about that overlapping thing. Thanks very much! :-D I wonder if John McKown could consider your good reply? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
