On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 12:02 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:31:46 -0500, David Andrews wrote: > > I wish the Unix time routines were able to accept something > > like TZ=CVTLDTO. > > > No! What you propose would cause times displayed for file > timestamps to fluctuate incorrectly at daylight saving time > boundaries, and fails to support users' local adjustment > of the TZ variable.
TOD clocks drift. Those of us without sysplex timers *have* to rely upon SET CLOCK, which in turn sets CVTLDTO to an offset that doesn't necessarily fall on a conventional TZ boundary. I sort of take your point though. So let's instead wish that the Unix time mechanism was smart enough to (a) look at CVTLDTO, (b) look at SYS1.PARMLIB(CLOCKxx), (c) look at the TZ environment variable, and (d) evaluate time the same way the rest of MVS sees it. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
