On Mon, 18 May 2020 11:26:17 -0500, Dale R. Smith wrote:
>
>z/VM has a CP QUERY TIMEZONE command:
>query timezone
>Zone Direction Offset Status
>UTC ---- 00.00.00 Inactive
>GMT ---- 00.00.00 Inactive
>EDT West 04.00.00 Active
>EST West 05.00.00 Inactive
>
>So it's trivial to get the Zone name. Of course, the name and the offset have
>to be defined to CP in either the system parms or via command. You would
>think that IBM's "Premiere OS" would be able to provide something this simple!
> :-)>
>
It ain't so easy, but it's been done at https://www.iana.org/time-zones
On MacOS I see:
...
2504 /usr/share/zoneinfo/.
2504 total
Ummm ... 2504 KiB. Of course you don't need all that. Poll your users
on what to prune. I expect no consensus. See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
... couple hundred entries.
Should -0600 be MDT or CST?
-- gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
