During daylight saving time, EDT is only 4 hours behind UTC. Barry Schwarz OS/390 System Programmer M/S 80-JE Phone: 253-657-5262 Fax: 253-657-8574
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Setting up timezone in Unix on Mainframe I am trying to figure out why my time inside 3.17 or OMVS is not quite right. Can you provide any guidance? My notes indicated this is all I would have to do, but it does not seem to be working. BROWSE //.profile Command ===> ********************************* Top of Da TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 BROWSE /SYSTEM/etc/init.options Line 00000044 Col Command ===> Scroll = * */ -a 9999 timeout = 9999 seconds -t 1 terminate shell = yes -sc /etc/rc shell script = /etc/rc -e TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 TZ environment variable BROWSE /SYSTEM/etc/profile Line Command ===> # TZ environment variable # ----------------------- # Specifies the local time zone. # ============================================================ TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 #TZ=EST5EDT export TZ Yet when I do a $ date at 09:33:08 I get: $ date Mon Jun 7 13:33:08 UTC 2010 ???? Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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