Lebanon Time is not a joke. `christians and muslims can't agree on
anything, including what time is now.

ITschak Mugzach
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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.
>
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> 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
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