Thank you.
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Subject: Re: z/OS Unix TZ time zone environment variable
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 6:36 PM Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com>
wrote:
> We are in the Mountain time zone. Our UTC offset is -7 for Standard time
> and -6 for Daylight saving time. Therefore we should set TZ=MST7MDT,
> correct? It would never be set to TZ=MST6MDT, correct? Because the latter
> is what we currently have, but it's not correct. In fact, the following is
> currently in our /etc/profile:
> # TZ=MST7MDT - Was coded on 5-3-2011 and prior!
> TZ=MST6MDT
> export TZ
>
> So it looks like it was correct before 5-3-2011, but someone intentionally
> changed it (breaking it). No idea why. Am I missing something?
>
No, whomever modified the TZ was wrong. I am in U.S., Centrral. I never
change the TZ from CST6CDT. The change from +6W to +5W is automatic & coded
in the UNIX code which retrieves the current time. I am guessing that the
person who did this, did it when {he,she} change the CLOCK in PARMLIB.
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