Agreed--or at least periodically check to see if the timezone has changed. Or even better, listen for the ENF that indicates that the local timezone offset changed. Of course applications may still have local time issues, but system-level things shouldn't.
Surely there is a good reason why IBM hasn't fixed this obvious problem for so very long, but I can't figure out what it is. Scott >Someone should teach those guys about UTC. > >-- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html