It is because your hardware clock is off by 7hours. CLKUTIL should always
be set to GMT time (-7:00 currently for Pacific). The date/time you enter
after you type START NORECOVERY should be current Pacific daylight time.

To set using SETCLOCK you can do the following:

SETCLOCK TIMEZONE=W7:00 then immediately
SETCLOCK;CANCEL  then
SETCLOCK DATE=04/25/2002;TIME=HH:MM;NOW

**Although the above does work I wouldn't do this on a production
system and would instead reboot and use CLKUTIL.



-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Donaldson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 13:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: HP COBOLII: When-Compiled and Current-Date Functions


I have a little problem going on :

In all my Cobol programs I have a banner routine that shows the run
date/time
and the date/time the program was compiled.

I use the functions WHEN-COMPILED and CURRENT-DATE. I use the "ACCEPT"
statement to get the system time.

The run date time is being shown correctly. However, the WHEN-COMPILED is
showing the time as 7 hours BEHIND the correct date/time.

At system startup time I set the hardware clock (via CLKUTIL) to the
appropriate date/time for this time zone (California, USA). As I start the
system from the "ISL>" prompt I put in the same date/time as I put in at the
CLKUTIL prompt.

My "TZ" variable is set correctly for my time zone, i.e "PST8PDT"

Why is the compiled date/time off by 7 hours?

Here is a sample of the program banner:

 * SPUDRIVR.NMPROG.SPUTIL                04/25/2002 11:25:04 *
 * Compiled: 04/25/2002 04:24:28
*

This program was compiled at 11:24am NOT 4:24am.

Thank you in advance,
Brian.

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