>From the SYSTEMS Side, were I work.  In the FALL-BACK poses a lot of issues 
>for things that reply upon a valid system time.

If we all relied on GMT the would be no real issue, but just about everyone 
likes Local Time. Plus its mostly political
If you are in the Retail Business like Walmart is.  You have lots of little 
laws that vary from state to state.

I love spring forward, do a SET CLOCK and you are done and the folks that 
process SMF will see a 1 hour gap.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RE-IPL for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:28:14 -0700, Charles Mills  wrote:
>
>Can anyone enlighten me? Why might our datacenter need or want to IPL 
>for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?
> 
Atavistic applications.  I doubt there's any such residue in the OS.

-- gil

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