On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:29:19 -0500, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>running z/OS V1.9 with JAVA in Unix > >I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps. > >I do have an /etc/profile which is fairly basic. As shipped by IBM. However, after reading the configuration manual for UNIX and JAVA, I am lost in translation. > >Any help is appreciated. > Where are you setting / updating the TZ variable? If you use a format like TZ=CST6CDT (for central time) or TZ=EST5EDT (eastern time), that should take care of having to change it in the spring and fall. You should have this specified in your /etc/init.options and also in /etc/profile. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
