Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>We did care when we installed STP. We intentionally 'lost' two hours and >>restarted all our toys including the STP. I specifically wrote Assembler, >>COBOL and REXX programs to verify our conversion by using all the different >>macros to extract times in various formats and locality. >Interesting. What range of localities?
Groan. I should restate it otherwise. Sorry, for misleading you by using a wrong word, 'locality'. It was not my intent. I meant Local Time and should have mentioned Zulu Time. I meant, when I did the tests, I use the LOCAL time and also the Zulu time (Greenwich time). We have only one timezone in South Africa and we don't bother [1] with Daylight saving. (I wish we do it, since we're nearer to South Pole than to civilized lands. :-D ) [1] - Some guys indeed tried to have Daylight saving to be used in South Africa but to no avail. It is a pity because sunrise and sunset are indeed different: Cape Town: Sunrise 6:42 Sunset 19:09 Durban: Sunrise 05:53 Sunset 18:17 Pretoria: Sunrise 06:06 Sunset 18:27 A Durbanite will in the first few days, when in Cape Town, looks worryingly to his watch when it is already 19:00... ;-) In my tests I used in REXX these: SYSCALL TIME and SYSCALL GMTIME and variants of TIME() functions. In COBOL: CEELOCT, CEEDATM, CEEGMTO, TIME Assembler: Variants of TIME macro in LT or GMT Zones. All those boring tests just to pacify my worrying users during the STP installation... ;-) >Will it convert only the present time, or also archival times? We were concerned about the present time because many of our processes need current (present) time in both those time zones. During Y2K drama, I was concerned about archival times, because it has an impact on ability to recover data. (RACF and ADSM amongst a lot of other date/time sensitive products and backup software.) > But that has LE entanglements. That entanglements (CEE stuff) confused me initially... :-) >My bicycle computer is peculiar: it offers either km/24-hour or mi/12-hour, >but not the other two quadrants. Hahahahahaha! :-D That is a cool computer, sort of... :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
