On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:27:56 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:02 AM Mark Jacobs wrote: >> Just curious why JES2 displays the value as a UTC timestamp and not local >> time. > ... >I guess the date could be rendered in the local time of the datacenter. But >that could confuse people in other time zones. Or even in the same time >zone because some places, like Illonis do not use daylight time. > Illonis? Perhaps Arizona, except for the Navajo Nation, except for the Hopi Reservation: <https://timegov.boulder.nist.gov/?t=24>
Really, the user ought to be allowed to select the timezone to support a mega datacenter used in multiple time zones, as in modern systems. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
