On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:56:45 -0600, John McKown wrote: >On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:51:51 -0600, Kammer, Charles wrote: > >>This is pretty much what we do as timing is important since we support the >County Jail. There are documented cases of people being released from >custody because "computer records" proved they were arrested before the >crime occurred. > >Which simply reinforces my point that all computer time stamps should be >recorded in GMT time, not local. If needed, they can be converted from GMT >to local time when displayed. Of course, this latter means that the >conversion routine needs to know how to convert (i.e. when DST started and >ended for every particular year). In Linux, this is kept in a system TZDATA >file. Wish z/OS had something similar. > Not only for every particular year, but for numerous geopolitical locales.
NIH. That has guided the rebuttals whenever I've advocated this, even to the extent that one viewpoint was that the TZDATA (zoneinfo?) data base extends back only 30 years or so, "So why bother?" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
