different time zones in db2

rakesh1155 · New User Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 84 Location: India

Hi,

I have a requirement to produce a report for a few countries (on diff timezones) : -

The report has to include the local time when it is genereted.

The problem is, it takes the system time (from DB2), So my question goes as:

Is there any DB2 SYSIBM table which contains all timezones (GMT offset) and we can use either of them accordingly ?

If not, Is there any other way of achieving this ? (the only idea that comes to my mind is creating a DB2 table which can be loaded with the timezone data (GMT offset) for all the countries we need to produce this report for ?

Thanks in advance.

avik1983 · New User Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Chennai

Hope this article will help you.

www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/0211yip/0211yip3.html

GuyC · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:06 pm

you shouldn't call it GMT but UTC.

and what about DST ?

DB2 does not support this, but once you have set up a table containing the timezone and DST-periods , writing a UDF shouldn't be to hard.

If your company is US-based or international, probably someone has already written this kind of routine (maybe not in SQL, but in COBOL,....) .