> You would think that IBM's "Premiere OS" would be able to provide something > this simple! :-)>
Not when it's still missing features from OS/VS1 and z/VSE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Dale R. Smith [dale-sm...@columbus.rr.com] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 12:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How determine local time zone *name* in Rexx? On Sun, 17 May 2020 12:21:20 -0700, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >The heck with it! I wanted it for the "Date:" line in an outgoing e-mail but >it appears that SMTP provides a sent timestamp if I don't, so the heck with >it! > >Thanks all for your efforts. Why should something so basic be so hard? > >Charles A lot easier to let SMTP figure it out! z/VM has a CP QUERY TIMEZONE command: query timezone Zone Direction Offset Status UTC ---- 00.00.00 Inactive GMT ---- 00.00.00 Inactive EDT West 04.00.00 Active EST West 05.00.00 Inactive So it's trivial to get the Zone name. Of course, the name and the offset have to be defined to CP in either the system parms or via command. You would think that IBM's "Premiere OS" would be able to provide something this simple! :-)> -- Dale R. Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
