Though I agree with you, at my first job - when I implemented OS/VS1 using GMT, I was nearly lynched by the Production Control people and Programmers. The print outs (remember them?) all said like: 20 Jan 1978 14:37 . When ask what the **** 14:37 meant, I said it was military time - subtract 12 if greater than 12. So it was 2:37 P.M. . They then said the clock was bad because it was really printed at 8:37. I said it was GMT so they had to adjust by the current 6 hour offset. I was then threatened with horrible torture if I didn't fix it to say 8:37 AM, because all this "folderall" was "bs" and the computer should report local time. Which confused me since this was city government and the court records were timestamped. And we could not stop processing during the "fall back", so we had 1 hour of duplicate time stamps in court records. Which a defense lawyer would have __loved__ to know about should his client have been arrested during that hour.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . [email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 8:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab > > > > For the US. Each country sets it own time zones. In > Australia, each state. > > Maybe we could get the UN or the Astronomical Union to keep > track of time zones? > > <lobby> > Convert all local schedules, etc. to GMT, or "Zulu" time. In > Chicagoland, e.g., I'd go to work at 1200 and work until 2100 > "Zulu" except during "Daylight Saving" time when I'd work > from 1100 until 2000. > </lobby> > > "It's not rocket science." > > -jc- > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ed Finnell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Seems like it ought to be a link from NOAA or Naval > Observatory time. > > > > > > In a message dated 10/8/2011 10:23:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > > Unix time-zone database is nuked > > -- > > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
