If you use local time and ESDS for logging (key is timestamp), you
can't go backward in time and you have to be down that one hour a
year.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a developer, not an operations guy. My boss has asked me why a
> datacenter we use would need to IPL for the daylight to standard time
> transition. He asks if the box does not use UTC, and I said that yes, the
> hardware clock is generally set to UTC but that perhaps the LPAR time zone
> change required an IPL.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me? Why might our datacenter need or want to IPL for
> the Daylight to Standard time conversion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
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