At 10:02 AM 24/10/95 -0700, Jeff Vance wrote:
>     The Time Zone form of the command is intended for the larger time
>     changes required to move the system to a new time zone, such as
>     moving between Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time.  This form
>     of the command alters the local time without changing Universal
>     Time.
>...
>        SETCLOCK TIMEZONE= W8:00
>
>        SYSTEM TIME: SUN, OCT 31, 1993, 06:23:14 AM
>        CURRENT TIME CORRECTION:  -3600 SECONDS
>        TIME ZONE: 8 HOURS 0 MINUTES WESTERN HEMISPHERE
 
Very interesting, but can someone tell me:
 
Other than issuing another SETCLOCK TIMEZONE... how can I tell what timezone
I'm set for?  SHOWTIME doesn't reveal it, nor is there an HPTZ variable.
 
We've used the SETVAR TZ=EST-10EDT since MPE/XL 4.0, as the C libraries have
always depended on these - has that dependancy been removed, amended,
emended, supplicated, subjugated or ignored?  Is this relevant for COBOL,
PASCAL and the intrinsic (non-posix) library?
 
GMT/UT is great!  But I'm getting confused by how many time zone methods
there are and where these are used.
 
Cheers (right here, right now!) from a bloke who went 3 months waiting on
his watch to be repaired.
 
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