z/VM: CP Commands and Utilities Reference - z/VM - IBM

DEFINE TIMEZONE
DEFINE TIMEZONE
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DEFine
Authorization
Purpose
Operands
TIMEZONE
zoneid
Privilege Class: A
Use DEFINE TIMEZONE to define a new time zone or change an existing time
zone definition.
To activate a time zone, use the SET TIMEZONE command (page 1408). To display
the defined time zones, use the QUERY TIMEZONES command (page 1035).
zoneid
is the time zone ID you wish to define or change. The time zone ID must be a
1- to 3-character alphanumeric string. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC
(Coordinated Universal Time) are reserved time zone IDs.
East
+ indicates that the time zone is east of longitude 0. CP adds the specified offset
to UTC to define the time zone ID. EAST is the same as +.
West
− indicates that the time zone is west of longitude 0. CP subtracts the specified
offset from UTC to define the time zone ID. WEST is the same as −.
offset
is the time difference between UTC and the zone ID you are defining. You can
specify the offset in either of the following formats:
hh:mm:ss
hh.mm.ss
East
+
West
−
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offset
where hh is the hour, mm are the minutes, and ss are the seconds. You can
separate the hour from the minutes and seconds using either a colon (:) or a
period (.), but you cannot use both in one offset definition. You must specify at
least a 1-digit number for the hour; everything else is optional. However, if you
want to specify seconds, you must specify the hour and the minutes. If you
want to specify the minutes, you must specify the hour.
For example, if you want to specify an offset of 5 hours, no minutes, and no
seconds, all of the following are valid offsets:
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