Has anyone moved from Local time (EST) to UTC with zLinux?? Any comments
or experiences to share?
One of our upper level managers want us to look at what it will take to
move everything that is on Local time (Linux & zOS) to UTC. From a
systems point of view I cannot think of an impact, just on
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:37:56 -0500
"CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)" wrote:
> Has anyone moved from Local time (EST) to UTC with zLinux?? Any comments
> or experiences to share?
Linux has no real notion of "local time" in the kernel or system. Local
time is a conversion handled in userspace and the conver
If you're application is requesing local time and you set up the TIMEZONE
information correctly, then I doubt you'd see any problem. The problems occur
if the application requests GMT time or does the assembler STCK or STCKE
instruction to get the TOD clock from the hardware directly.
You menti
The sysplex is a big issue at our shop, so this will be interesting,
more so than the Y2K eleven years ago ;-). Thanks for responding.
James Chaplin
Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux
Base Technologies, a CA Technologies Company
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>>> On 11/24/2011 at 09:59 AM, Agblad Tore wrote:
> Hi again.
> I have these tricky things showing up all the time :)
> I have looked here and there but I don't find the answer to this question:
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d contains rules, but as they have persistent in the name I
> get suspicious.
>
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:23:37 -0500
"CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)" wrote:
> The sysplex is a big issue at our shop, so this will be interesting,
> more so than the Y2K eleven years ago ;-). Thanks for responding.
If you are doing a review of time handling in your Linux/Unix apps as part
of this you might
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:55 -0600 "McKown, John" wrote:
> One is to simply wait for "n" hours for the
> GMT version of the TOD clock to move forward from the local TOD clock
> time (US EST would be a >5 hour wait). This is not likely to go over
> well with management. .
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We looked at this (in a
