Ken, Thanks for your reply. Here is what we ended up doing - We changed our environment TZ variable from
EST5EDT1:00,M4.1.0/2:00:00,M10.4.0/2:00:00 to EST0EDT1:00,M4.1.0/2:00:00,M10.4.0/2:00:00 (changed the offset from 5 to 0) And changed the hardware clock to the local time (EST). Now Unix, UniData and UniObjects see the same time and date. Ed Burwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 973.361.5400 x1512 -----Original Message----- From: Ken Wallis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] UniObjects and Time zones Ed, I believe that on AIX TZ is set from /etc/environment during the login process. The unirpcd which serves all your UniObjects connections doesn't go through this process so it likely doesn't have a setting for TZ and defaults to GMT. Have a look at the options for unirpcd and see if you can give it an environment file at startup. Otherwise you may have to write a wrapper script called unirpcd which simply sets the environment and execs the real unirpcd. Cheers, Ken > Burwell, Edward wrote: > > When we boot our AIX system, it shows the current date and time as GMT > (UTC?) and our time zone is EST, therefore when I do a "date" at the Unix > prompt, I get: > > Thu Oct 28 16:25:44 EST 2004 > > And when I do a "DATE" at our UniData prompt, I get: > > Thu Oct 28 16:26:00 EST 2004 > > These are giving me the correct time and date. > > When I do "echo $TZ" at a Unix prompt, I get: > > EST5EDT1:00,M4.1.0/2:00:00,M10.4.0/2:00:00 > > Therefore, our time zone is correct as far as Unix and UniData goes. > However, when I run the command: > > LIST WORK.ORDER DT TM SAMPLE 10 > > through a UniObjects program (see below), It gives me the > "raw" date and > time - with no time zone offset applied. So my question is, > where does > UniObjects get the time zone when a dictionary containing > @TIME, TIME(), > @DATE or DATE() is run? > > btw, I don't see anything in my .profile that has anything to > do with time zone. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. ______________________________________________________________________ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
