This Natural profile parameter specifies a time differential to be applied to the Natural time/date setting to ensure that the current local time/date is used, rather than the computer center time/date.
| Possible settings | AUTO |
During session initialization, Natural compares the physical
(store clock) and logical (system environment) machine times and uses the
difference between the two as the setting for the TD
parameter. For a time change to take effect for Natural (for example, to change
time to summer time or back to winter time), it is therefore sufficient to
reset the logical machine time. This affects only those sessions which were
started after the time change.
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Hours, minutes and seconds from (-23,59,59) to
(+23,59,59). A plus (optional) or minus sign indicates, whether
the TD value is to be added or subtracted.
The specified time is added to or subtracted from the physical machine time to set the time/date to be used by Natural. |
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| 1 to 32 characters | Name of the time zone to be used. This must be defined as a
valid time zone in the
NTTZ macro of the
NATCONFG module, see
Configuration Tables - Module
NATCONFG. If the time changes according to the DST
definition in NATCONFG for the time zone, this is honored during a
running session.
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| Default setting | 0 |
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| Dynamic specification | yes | |
| Specification within session | no | |
| Application programming interface | USR1005N |
See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation. |
Note:
This parameter is applicable in an environment in which remote nodes
are being used in a computer network.
With VSE-type operating systems, // ZONE and
//DATE JCL statements are honored with TD=AUTO. This
can also affect the setting of the profile parameter DD.
See also the profile parameters YD and DD.
TD=6 (6 hours ahead) TD=(5,30) (5 hours and 30 minutes ahead) TD=(-6,12,30) (6 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds behind) TD='USA-EST' (eastern time zone as defined in NTTZ macro)
