On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:32:58 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >I always thought Spring Forward and Fall Back were not the greatest way >to remember which way to move the clock. I mean, I could just as easily >trip and Fall Forward, or Spring Back if I get scared. > Like many mnemonics this relies more on rote linguistic memory than on any logical imperative.
>Now wasn't there a change to daylight savings time some years ago that >moved things to a totally different week or month? In that case, can I >assume you still made no changes to STP and (I'll guess) it picked up >the new dates from a remote NTP server or similar? > 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Procedure There are national variants. Australia and Chile are very different from USA. I believe NTP transmits UTC. To accommodate legislative changes one must use further resources such as: https://www.iana.org/time-zones IBM z/OS, VM, (and I suspect STP) are badly afflicted with NIH concerning this otherwise common utility. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
