In <5673187431278464.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>, on 10/16/2011 at 03:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>It never "switch[es]". How do you define switch. >TZ specifies a formula for converting system clock >values to civil time values. That formula includes start and stop dates. >That formula will be exactly the same a month >from today as it is today. The formula TZ=EST5EDT,3,2,0,7200,11,1,0,7200,3600 will not change. The output for a given input, however, will change. I call that a switch. >Given identical inputs, it will yield identical >outputs next month as now. Not unless you ignore everything after the first field. >BTW, I've been looking at the description of the STCKCONV macro I >see no mention of a "ZONE={LOCAL|GMT} parameter. Does it lack one? A quick look at the macro definition should answer that. >RCF time? Il va sans dire! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html