On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 01:35:52 -0700, Donald Russell wrote: >Hmmmm, yes, I can run Linux, and in fact have Linux running in the same >lpar already. I can just create a Linux Userid (no need for another linux >instance) and set their time zone accordingly and use a cron tab to trigger >the event. Brilliant! Thanks for the tip. :-) > One caution:
Crontab always uses the system timezone setting; it's oblivious to the user's setting of TZ (unless Linux has an extension). The "at" command, however, is TZ-savvy, so I've circumvented by using crontab to trigger an event a few hours befor the intended time, which triggers an "at" command to trigger the event in the desired timezone. Possibly another caution: If the system is halted at the scheduled time, crontab simply skips the event until the next day, unlike WAKEUP which processes the event immediately upon restart. z/OS Unix System Services has some timezone smarts, but, unlike Linux, it is oblivious to legislative changes in timezone conventions. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
