On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> @Peter, thanks, interesting. I have tried to wrap my head around the exact > meaning to the system of "CET" and similar strings (as opposed to their > meaning as civil abbreviations). > > @John, is that true? This is a "mainframe" behavior, not a UNIX behavior? > Well, I'll be dipped in <something unpleasant>. I just tested this on Linux and it works the same way as on z/OS (incorrectly, IMO). But if, on Linux, you use the "Olson" format for TZ (z/OS doesn't support this), you get the correct answer. [tsh009@it-johnmckown-linux junk]$ TZ='Europe/Amsterdam' date Fri Nov 4 14:27:52 CET 2016 [tsh009@it-johnmckown-linux junk]$ TZ=CET-1CEST date Fri Nov 4 15:29:05 CEST 2016 Olson Timezone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database Olson time zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones > Charles > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
