On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 10:26:57 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >Re moving the DST dates: we have a "smart" clock that does DST automatically, >to save you the hassle. However, there's no way to disable that, so since they >moved the dates, it means we now get to reset it *four* times a year. Lovely. >I assume they didn't sell it in AZ and parts of IN :) > z/OS UNIX System Services does this sort of thing farly well, even in AZ. Mr. Natural sez, use the right tool for the job.
Linux does far better by using the IANA timezone data base. I hear far less complaining about DST among UNIX programmers because UNIX deals with DST so much better than z/OS. I prefer to speak of a DST "boundary" rather than a "change" because in an intelligent implementation nothing changes semiannually, but only when "they moved the dates." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
