On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 22:23:23 -0700, Donald Russell wrote:
>zVM 6.1 (6.2 coming)
>
>The system runs with a UTC timezone, but it would be convenient if I had a
>userid that could run in a different time zone.
>
>UTC doesn't change with Daylight Saving Time, and I have a process I want
>to schedule at a specific time that is subject to DST changes. i.e. I want
>something to run at 3:00 AM Pacific Time, in summer and winter.
>
>If I can have a disconnected service machine running in the proper
>timezone, then a simple (k)wakeup exec can do what I need at the correct
>time.
>
>I thought TODENABLE might give me a clue, but I don't want a different
>time, I just want a different view of the same time. :-)
>
>Or, I just have to write my own little time calculator to make the
>adjustment... Not a difficult thing, but if there's a wheel I can use...
>
It's all been done:
http://www.iana.org/time-zones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
IBM simply has a bad case of NIH. And someone points out that
even IBM does it on AIX.
Can your service machine run Linux?
-- gil
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