On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:20:45 -0400, Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Mark,
>
>One thing I can think of is the following scenario :
>
>       (1) You have a STCK value in a field in a control block value
>(eg a "created" date)
>       (2) You want to display that in local time
>       (3) Instinct prompts the developer to add the doubleword value
>CVTLTDO to the STCK value and then use STCKCONV to format it nicely
>
>Unless the software maintains some sort of country+timezone+date lookup
>table to adjust the TOD value before calling STCKCONV you could end up
>being a hour or more out in the displayed local time.
>
>

Hi Rob,

Don't we have that same issue now (RMF III for example)?  How does
the US change in 2007 affect this. 

Mark
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