On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 08:34:00 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:
>To be pedantic, TZ does not itself contain the rules for DST.
>
503 $ uname -s; tail -1 /etc/localtime
Linux
MST7MDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I call that "the rules for DST."
>That's the domain of the timezone database, tzinfo.
>
>Now, what I'd go for is to use tzinfo - which is well understood and well
>maintained - to set both the CLOCKxx and TZ parameters. That would probably
>require sticking it in a SYS1 dataset somewhere.
>
+1
To be thorough, there's a delicate balance to seek between correctness and
performance requirements for TIME, STCKCONV, and CONVTOD.
--
gil
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