The US moved the Spring forward from 1st Sunday in April to 3rd Sunday in March and Fall Back from last Sunday in October to First Sunday in November, almost a decade ago. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:33 PM Tom Brennan <[email protected]> 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. > > 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? > > On 11/5/2018 11:40 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > Knew that looked odd. 'Fall back'. Either way no problem. > > > > . > > . > > J.O.Skip Robinson > > Southern California Edison Company > > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > > 323-715-0595 Mobile > > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > > [email protected] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 11:37 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: (External):Re: Speaking of time change... > > > > We've used 'sysplex timer' exclusively to control time zone since the days > > of 9037 in the mid-90s. It's now STP (Server Time Protocol), no longer an > > external gizmo but optional hardware in the CEC. > > > > The 9037's biggest limitation was that it had to be (re)programmed for each > > time change, so you could not reach out further than six months. STP has no > > such limitation. It's essentially programmed permanently so that it never > > again needs fiddling with once a CEC is installed. Our three CECs got > > through 'spring back' with no manual intervention. Or IPLs. > > > > . > > . > > J.O.Skip Robinson > > Southern California Edison Company > > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > > 323-715-0595 Mobile > > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 11:10 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: (External):Speaking of time change... > > > > has anyone used the Sysplex timer option to automatically switch time zones? > > I was updating the timer on Friday to change the timezone on Sunday AM @ > > 02:00 and just noticed the option to adjust the time automatically, I > > didn't do any research yet but I'm wondering if anyone's use it? > > also we set an environmental variable for time zone in the CEE parms, > > currently CST6CDT, I updated the parms on my test system to use > > ENVAR("TZ=CST+6CDT+5,M3.3.0/2,M11.2.0/2") - does this work as advertised? > > any got ya's ? > > > > > > > > thanks > > Carmen > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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