Can I manage two different time zones in one AS400 LPAR?

spr-electrolux:

Murph is generally right. A "kind of" exception would be where the LPAR was created from the start with the idea that time-zones would be on a per-user basis, and then all apps were created/written for it. That's a _very_ unlikely scenario. Few apps are written to support this concept.

You'd  start with the system itself running under UTC/Coordinated Universal Time. You'd then need to have all apps work around 'locale' settings for each user and performing needed conversions between system-time and user-time for input/output.

Note that databases would need to store times/dates according to UTC and apps would do the adjustments whenever users manipulated the stored data.

That's not particularly different from how it's done at the basic level on any platform. However, platforms that do support this generally are created with it in mind from the very first settings and all the way through. Writing the apps in C and using all the UNIX-related support would be a possible method. (And client-server always has the possibility.)

Of course, you're not likely to find apps that don't have COBOL, RPG or similar programming where the programming assumes a single time zone.

It's very impractical. I say accept Murph's answer and think of it as not going to happen.

Tom

Yep, Unless you having  seperate file-libraries for seperate departments it will become quite confusing
But even then: Running a sceduledjob at 23:00 is that for timezone 1 or 2 ? :)  etc etc

Forced accept.

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