Why not a settable option to use local, UTC or both? ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:02 AM Mark Jacobs < 00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Just curious why JES2 displays the value as a UTC timestamp and not local > time. > Just as a guess on my part, it might be because there are a number of multinational companies with a mega datacenter used in multiple time zones. I guess the date could be rendered in the local time of the datacenter. But that could confuse people in other time zones. Or even in the same time zone because some places, like Illonis do not use daylight time. > > Mark Jacobs > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
