On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:32:18 -0400, Nick Laflamme wrote: >Can anyone explain to me the relationship between the time as displayed >on our MP/3000's OS/2 Warp sessions and the hardware clock of the "real >computer" hosted by the OS/2 Warp system? > >This past weekend, as we were coming up after an outage, I decided I was >tired of the HMC's time being off by an hour, especially since it didn't >put a time zone on date stamps, like in the hardware error message logs. >So, I manually fixed the time via the OS/2 clock "properties" page. > >When I brought up our z/VM 4.4 system, its clock was off by exactly an >hour which, alas, I didn't notice. When I came in last night to fix this >gaffe, I went looking all over the OS/2 Warp system for some sort of >timezone setting I could tweak so it'd know we were on EDT, not EST, and >so the underlying GMT would be correct.(I hate systems whose nominal GMT >times are wrong, especially those that are "local" time, but I >digress....) Alas, I never could find a time zone setting in OS/2 for >EDT vs. EST vs. Alaskan time or anything else, and it's been more than a >decade since I used an OS/2 system regularly. > >I ended up telling z/VM upon IPL that I had to change the hardware >clock, so that now at least the mainframe GMT is correct, but I have no >idea if I have just made a muddle of things or what. > >Help? > >Thanks, >Nick
Nick, I don't know about the HMC on the MP3000. However, vanilla OS2 has a "SET TZ=" command in the config.sys. I can send you mine if you need it. It is for eastern timezone. Lloyd
