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
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