On Tue, 11 May 2021 08:54:05 +1000, Attila Fogarasi wrote: >Z/os has to handle arbitrary TIMEZONE values -- and does it well. Keep in >mind that there are dozens of world locations that have non-hour timezone > It does it poorly. Of the "dozens of world locations" any z/OS system handles only two. And see the problems mentioned by Steve Austin and Ed Jaffe in followup plies. I have a computer in my shirt pocket that does better for a price lower by orders of magnitude.
>offsets (typically 30 min and 15 min). There are even locations which have >Daylight Saving Time 30 min ahead of standard time instead of the usual 1 >hour. Could be worse, there used to be countries with 12 min offset for >timezone, but that ended circa 1986. The net is that z/OS doesn't think >that 1 hour 1 minute timezone offset is unusual :) > In the view of many (perhaps most) the intent of Local Time is not to make the computer room floor a sui generis "timezone" but to provide a time that agrees with the clock on the bank wall. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
