I used SET TIMEZONE forward and backwards for many years on a Z9 at z/OS
1.13 for a number of years

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> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 12:41 PM
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> Subject: Time Change Delima
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> Running an unsupported operating system 1.13 on a Z9 processor. No
> SYSPLEX timer installed.
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> We are coming up on the time falling back the first Sunday in November.
We
> have a slight problem.
> We are not able to shutdown  and IPL the system to wait an hour but need
to
> change the time.  We are thinking possibly that issuing the TIMEZONE
> W.05.00.00  or set CLOCK=hh.mm.ss commands should do the trick.
> 
> We do plan on shutting down all online systems, logger files along with
SMF.
> Not sure about SYSLOG or how OMVS will handle the situation.
> 
> Any suggestions or gotchas we might be missing?
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> Philip S Watkins
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