Re: Mainframe synchronized with Internet time???

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Subject: Re: Mainframe synchronized with Internet time???
From: Edward Jaffe (edjaffe@phoenixsoftware.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2008 - 11:47:21 EDT 

RJacobson@decare.com wrote:
> Because of problems with CICS journal entry timestamps, having the
> mainframe TOD clock run a little slow is the way you would want it to be
> off.  That way, all time corrections will be to move the clock forward in
> time, except for the annual fall DST --> STD time change.
>   

We don't change the TOD for a time zone change. We merely change the 
time zone offsets used by the operating systems to compute local time. 
The hardware always runs with TOD = GMT.

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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
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edjaffe@phoenixsoftware.com
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