Lebanon Time is not a joke. `christians and muslims can't agree on anything, including what time is now.
ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 9:49 AM Gadi Ben-Avi <[email protected]> wrote: > We changed the time on Friday March 24th at 2 am. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: יום ב 27 מרץ 2023 09:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What time is it in Lebanon? > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:49:32 +0000, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > > >When I install a new version of z/OS in Israel I set the time zone in > SYS1.PARMLIB(CLOCKxx) and in /etc/profile. I set TZ to IST-2IDT. > > > On what date this year does that change the offset from IST to IDT? By > experiment on MacOS, I see March 12, which is the convention for USA, not > ISRAEL. > > With TZ=IST-2IDT,M3.4.4/26,M10.5.0 I get March 26, which > www.timeanddate.com says is correct for Israel. > > >Some USS based tasks have their own time zone setting which must be > updated as well. > > > Why more than one? Just one works fine on my desktop and phone. > Is it to support geographically distributed systems, or can IBM just not > get its act together? > > >The time comes from STP which is set to UTC. > > > IBM recommends in the PoOps TAI-10 seconds, which is now UTC-27. > > >STP get its time from enterprise NTP servers. > > > >Nothing comes preconfigured. > > > Ouch! Does IBM not even suggest the correct strings for TZ for various > locations? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
