SET.TIMEZONE

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The SET.TIMEZONE statement sets the time zone for use by the epoch conversion code.

 

 

Format

 

SET.TIMEZONE zone

 

where

 

zoneis the name of the time zone to be set.

 

 

The SET.TIMEZONE statement is equivalent to executing the CONFIG command to set the TIMEZONE private configuration parameter. There is no validation performed on the zone name.

 

A program can retrieve the current time zone using the CONFIG() function with "TIMEZONE" as the argument value.

 

 

See also:

Date, Times and Epoch Values, EPOCH(), MVDATE(), MVDATE.TIME(), MVEPOCH(), MVTIME(), SET.TIMEZONE