Depends on the date. If it is during daylight savings, MDT, otherwise CST. -0500 used to prevent a bit of a challenge. EST, CDT, or Indiana EST all year.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 5:02 PM Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
