On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:58:53 -0500, John McKown wrote: >We produce reports on our z/OS CPU utilization. They are reported in local >time, with "a.m." and "p.m.". Because apparently only military (and pilots) >understand Zulu time. So, twice a year, I must explain why we never seem to >have any activity on Sunday from 02:00 to 03:00 in the spring, and how we >manage to run so much work on one Sunday from 02:00 to 03:00 in the fall. >The reason, of course, is the stupid time change. 02:00 to 03:00 does not >exist on "Spring Forward" Sunday, and from 02:00 to 03:00 is a two hour >period on "Fall Backwards" Sunday. And every year, I hear the "WTF???" on >Monday morning. <sigh/> > So, disambiguate by reporting the times separately for that hour in the Fall, and not at all for that hour in the Spring, and qualifying with EST or EDT.
Yes, there would be a 25-line report in the Fall, and a 23-line report in the Spring. Deal with it; SMOP. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
