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Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:02:31 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: TZ parameter

In <5.1.0.14.2.20070106143547.02950270@mail.vcnet.com>, on 01/06/07
at 07:11 PM, Steve Carter said:

>I found an the following IBM AIX Cobol reference;
>It shows the default for the 5th parameter as 3600.

>http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cbl.doc/rpclr27.htm

>There's also this at Warpspeed in Oz:

>http://www.warpspeed.com.au/cgi-bin/inf2html.cmd?..%5Chtml%5Cbook%5CIBMVACPP%5CCPPPROG.INF+37

IBM docs often have minor typos that never get corrected.

See

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html

for an example that supports 7200 being the correct value.

I should also mention that the TZ format used by OS/2 is legacy. Recent
systems use an entirely different coding method.

Steven

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