On Thu, 26 May 2011 03:20:46 -0700, Ed Gould wrote: > >Missed the registration but it seems straight forward that you put it on the >web >page, no? Or am I expecting too much? > Only if you expect some people's decision to register to be contingent on possible schedule conflicts at some particular hour.
Some years ago, I received via M$ Outlook a meeting notice for "0900 MST (GMT-0700)" (sic) one day the next week. Knowing that the DST change was about to occur, I inquired. Actually, they meant MDT (GMT-0600). The format was automatically generated by Outlook. Trouble ticket. "Not our problem; Outlook does it that way." "Then pass the report on to M$." "WAD." That came back so quickly that they had either reported the problem previously, or anticipated the answer without ever contacting the vendor. But z/OS is no better. It's a misdesign to rely on a single offset in the CVT to convert timestamps, oblivious that the offset changes semiannually, and less regularly with legislative changes. And I have little hope that IBM would do better than M$'s "WAD" if the problem were reported to them. How does STCKCONV deal with this? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html