Time management

Time management allows you to manage time on your iSeries™ server.

Within the time management component of iSeries Navigator, you can work with the time zone and time adjustment functions. With these two functions, time management allows you to choose a time zone for your system to use. In addition, you can identify the software to use as the time maintenance application that synchronizes your system time with an external time source.

The time zones function allows you to specify a time zone for your system to use. Many time zone descriptions are provided with the system and you can also create your own. Time zone descriptions include whether your system should observe daylight saving time (DST) or not. If DST is being observed, the system automatically updates your system time for the start and end of DST.

The time adjustment function allows you to adjust the system time by manually starting a time adjustment. In addition, you can identify a time maintenance application to use to adjust the system clock to keep it synchronized with an external time source.

In addition, you can work with time management using iSeries Navigator tasks on the Web. This allows you to work with time management functions using a Web browser.

• What's new for V5R4
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• Concepts
  Use this information to understand time management concepts such as time zones, coordinated universal time (UTC), and daylight saving time (DST).
• Scenarios
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• Set up time management
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• Manage system time
  View this topic to learn how to properly manage your system time.
• Manage time zones
  View this topic to learn how to effectively use time zones. You will learn how to create and edit time zones as well as set the time zone system value.
• Troubleshooting
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