True, but the difference may be within 24 hours. I get 21 days late *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| *
*|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:23 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > As @Shmuel says, it depends on how the clock is set. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 9:19 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: STCK and epoch time > > Paul, > > So if I ignore leap seconds, Can I just divide the number by 409600 and > subtruct 1.1.1970-1.1.1900? > > *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere > Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux > and IBM I **| * > > *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* > *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:09 PM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:30:52 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > > >The TOD clock is just a counter; what you get out of it depends on what > > you put into it. There is a convention in PoOps, but if you want the > > correct time and date it is much easier to use system services than to do > > the adjustments yourself. > > > > > >MVS does not use the same epoch as Eunix. Unix System Services will > > adjust the epoch properly. > > > > > UNIX counts seconds, excluding leap seconds, starting 1970-01-01t00:00:00 > > MVS counts microseconds/4096, including leap seconds, starting > > 1900-01-01t00:00:10. > > > > >________________________________________ > > >From: ITschak Mugzach > > >Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 10:36 AM > > > > > >How exactly STCK (not STCKE) stores the time? I took the value (8 bytes) > > >and converted it to decimal 10 characters. I expect it to be the same as > > >the EPOCH time returned by USS time call. However the returned value is > > July > > >29, 2019 (have a time from yesterday). I know there is a macro to do it, > > >but I want to keep the correct epoch time. > > > > > I'm mystified (unless it's a coding error) by the 6-month error. Show > > your code. > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
