On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:43:47 +0000, Porowski, Kenneth wrote:

>Flash (Alert)
>
>Abstract
>Daylight savings time adjusement may not be reported correctly by CEELOCT
>Content
>Europe will be implementing their DST changes this upcoming weekend and USA 
>will be doing so the following weekend.
>========================
>It was discovered that recent Language Environment APAR PI78252 is causing 
>applications to receive an incorrect current time value after a change to the 
>system time for Daylight Savings Time. The types of applications that are 
>affected are Language Environment applications that make use of:
>Language Environment date/time callable services related to the local time, 
>CEELOCT and CEEGMTO;
>High level language semantics that make use of these services, including the 
>COBOL ACCEPT FROM TIME statement and the CURRENT-TIME function.
>PL/I application which use functions like date(), time(), datetime(), days(), 
>and secs() which use CEELOCT under the covers.
> 
Isn't it about time z/OS discovered the Olson tz database?

Yeah, I know; NIH.

But Java has it right.

-- gil

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