It's not so basic. AFAIK, z/OS doesn't keep track of the local timezone name, other than the Unix TZ environment variable, which of course is arbitrarily set by whoever sets it. But that's pretty much the nature of timezone names, which are not unique, consistent, or properly understood.
If you really wanted to go down the rabbit hole, you'd have to incorporate the logic of https://www.timeanddate.com/ as well as know your latitude. A bit more than a table look up. sas On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 3:21 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > The heck with it! I wanted it for the "Date:" line in an outgoing e-mail > but > it appears that SMTP provides a sent timestamp if I don't, so the heck with > it! > > Thanks all for your efforts. Why should something so basic be so hard? > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
