View this topic to learn which time zone is the proper time zone for your systems.
Before setting up your systems to use time management, you need to examine your systems with respect to which time zone to use and whether your systems meet the proper hardware and software requirements necessary to make time adjustments or not. You can use the time zones and time adjustment functions in combination with one another or separately.
If you plan on using the time zones function of the i5/OS™, you need to determine the time zone to use for each system. One single physical system can be divided into logical systems (partitions) that use different time zones.
If you plan on using a time maintenance application, the system must meet the proper hardware and software requirements needed to use the time adjustment function of iSeries™ Navigator. To make time adjustments, you must be using a version of i5/OS V5R3 or later with V4R5 or later hardware.
The following are some questions to consider when examining your systems:
After you have evaluated each system's time zone needs and system requirements for time adjustments, you can set each system's time zone.