On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:02:23 +0000, Bill Bishop (TMNA) wrote:

>I have been requested to investigate the impact of switching "local" time to 
>"UTC" time.
>
>We currently use STP to establish the time and offsets for our LPARs, so 
>basically we are using UTC time correctly.
>
>However, the requirement may include not changing local time when daylight 
>savings time occurs.  The intent is to maintain a consistent 'displayed' time 
>world-wide as many places do not adjust times.
> 
If your operations are worldwide, UTC would seem the sensible choice.

>Using STP, the local time changes automatically and I am not aware of any way 
>prevent it.  
> 
Surely STP can accomadate locales even in the U.S. such as Arizoa and Hawaii 
which do
not observe Daylight Saving time, more so oveseas and in the southern 
hemisphere.

>Is anyone aware of how to accomplish this?

-- gil

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