On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:05:56 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>My question is what do I tell the customers that ask "how come you don't get
>the time right without us telling you what to do with a parm or DD? Our MVS
>programs know what the local time is. What's wrong with your program?" I
>want to be able to say "you need to set TZ in _________ as described in
>_____________."
>
Yes, but do your customers' programs know what time it is in Pacific/Apia,
e.g. Many enterprises nowadays span multiple time zones; restricting
customers to two is pretty harsh.
Cite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
(Or did I overlook some imputed rhetoric?)
Simply, if either the POSIX time or the OS/360 time is set in PARMLIB,
but not both, the system should infer the one missing from the one
supplied. If both are supplied but incosistent, it should issue an
informative message.
-- gil
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