Time in @TM

[John Esak]

Jim Asman helped me fix our TZ variable to do the new schedule for DST on
our SCO system. It worked perfectly.  However, one frantic day after the
change, about 24 hours later... a plant called in and said all their boxes
were being marked an hour early!! The totals per shift were wrong, etc.,
etc. I was pulling my hair out because this plant uses the same server that
was working perfectly. How in the world could it be off????  Again, Jim came
to the aid of my muddled brain.  He said check the environment on the logins
from the plant in California.... (they login to the server in NJ)..... And
YES, lo and behold, over 4 years ago, I put in their login .profiles a line
which changed their TX variable to PDT8 or somesuch... so our Eastern based
server would deliver the right time to them.  I had forgotten this, so even
though my system TZ was correct, filePro was relating to their environment's
TZ and delivering what was the correct time for it.  We went in and changed
the TZ variable in all those .profiles to the long one with the commas and
various month day hours for the new changeover... and all went immediately
to "well" the next time they checked in.

So, check your TZ value in the environment that filePro appears to be
messing up on, I'm betting it is not right.

Hope its this easy for you, too.

John (and Jim)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Rodgers Hemer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:55 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Time in @TM
>
>
> SCO 5.0.7 w/ MP5,  fP5.0.14
>
> I have one system that does not return the correct time when using
> @tm.  The latest maintenance pack for SCO has been installed and the
> operating system displays the correct time from the date command.
> However, @TM is showing the time to be what it would have been before
> the March 1 DST change.  I can find no difference in the
> configuration of filePro between this errant system and others to
> which I have access.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is causing this
> aberration and/or how to correct it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodgers Hemer
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