On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:19:11 +0000, Allan Staller wrote:

>Try setting:
>
> TZ= IST2IDT
>export $TZ
>
>in a Unix shell and see what happens.
> 
Close, but no cigar.  See:
    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Standard_Time#Differences_between_other_countries

The POSIX convention (used by z/OS) is America-centric.

Jewish solar-lunar calendar?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Giliad Wilf
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 3:42 AM
>
>I'm configuring a new system in Israel and wish to pick the correct timezone 
>for our location, in terms of z/OS USS.
>Now I wonder whether or not will IST2IDT be accepted by z/OS USS if placed in 
>'/etc/init.options' and '/etc/profile' files.
> 
>Are there any additional locations to update, aside from CLOCKxx's TIMEZONE 
>parameter, which I'm going to change from 'W.06.00.00' to 'E.02.00.00'?
>
>Our z/OS runs on top of z/VM and Linux zPDT app., which show both correct UTC 
>value, but use a TZ that appears to be the equivalent of EST5EDT.
> 
That's two places too many.

When I first encountered UNIX, it seemed to me that the "UNI" prefix might
mean "Uniform" (ignore historical and risqué wit.)  On my Linux and MacOS 
systems,
    679 $ ls -l /etc/localtime
    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  34 Apr  8 09:20 /etc/localtime -> 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver
... provides a useful default for any process in which TZ is unset.
Why is z/OS so moronic?  And why has z/OS not adopted Olson zoneinfo?

I have looked in vain for either a list of world timezones in POSIX format
or a utility to convert Olson to POSIX and found none.  It doesn't  seem
useful for the larger world that's more au courant than z/OS.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:31:28 +0000, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote:

>His may help https://www.timeanddate.com/time/current-number-time-zones.html
>
Seriously!?  And that's a schema, not "a list" as the OP requested.

-- gil

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