by Dawn May | Mar 5, 2012 | Navigator for i, Work Management
Daylight Saving Time is just around the corner and if you’re like me, you aren’t looking forward to “losing” an hour and getting up earlier. I also dislike having to change all my clocks, although I have noticed this task has gotten easier recently, with several devices such as cell phones and DVRs making the transition all on their own. The IBM i falls into that category of making the DST transition automatically, but it hasn’t always been that easy.
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by Dawn May | Feb 22, 2012 | Work Management
By now, you probably have already heard that this year is a leap year. And you have a good understanding of what a leap year is and why we have them. But if you hadn’t already heard about 2012 being a leap year, or didn’t have a calendar handy, would you know how to determine which years have an extra day in February? If your answer is, “That’s simple! Just divide the year by 4 and if there is no remainder, it’s a leap year,” you would be right…most of the time. But there’s more to it than that.
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