Accepting the date on the system 1

[SiouxCityElvis]

I'm using RMCOBOL-85 on Linux...
How do I fix the date showing up as what I believe must be GMT since it's usually 5-6 hours off my local time. At a prompt when I type the linux command "date", the time shows up as my local time, but in my COBOL it shows up as the GMT time I guess.

In my working storage:

01  HISTDATE.
    03 HCC  PIC 99.
    03 HYY  PIC 99.
    03 HMM  PIC 99.
    03 HDD  PIC 99.

In my procedure division.
....

ACCEPT HISTDATE FROM YYYYMMDD.
DISPLAY HISTDATE.

Thanks.
-David

 

[k5tm]

David,

prior to execution of the cobol program, the standard TZ environment variable must be set. For example, in the bash shell for the US Central time zone, try the following:

export TZ="US/Central"

Other shells require different syntax, but the idea is the same.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[SiouxCityElvis]

Worked great. Thanks.