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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:40:48 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: daylight saving major change in 2007 ?

In <42F91E75.4218@peterskye.com>, on 08/09/05
at 02:22 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Thanks, I do have the params (and they're the same for OS/2 as for eCS).

And basically 100% obsolete and unrecognized on current OS's.

>-- Are there program calls (perhaps PM, perhaps WPS, perhaps in platforms
>such as Java or XFree86, perhaps in add-on libraries) which return
>"adjusted" clock values, or instead is it up to each application program
>to simply obtain the TZ environment value and adjust as desired.

Support the the TZ variable is 100% application dependent. As you know
some apps, do a better job than others wrt processing anything but the
simpiest variations.

>-- Does some component of the operating system change the clock when
>crossing a Daylight Saving boundary? (I haven't seen this happen but I'd
>like some kind of confirmation one way or the other.)

There are apps that do this. The OS does not have built-in support for
this.

>It's probably in an IBM Redbook somewhere.

The usual place is the runtime library docs for the compiler you are
using.

To find out what you have in the way of installed docs, you can:

view cmdref
Ctrl-S
TZ
Ctrl-A
Enter

Regards,

Steven

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