On 9 November 2015 at 11:35, J O Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> wrote: [...] > Meanwhile no application area has reported problems with duplicate time > stamps interfering with their production. (Is that a second factoid?) So > running with true UTC and current OS and middleware, fallback time change > should no longer be a global concern.
Duplicate timestamps, while not impossible during the hour in question, are a lot less likely than non monotonically increasing timestamps. Depending on the precision of the stored timestamps, of course. If they are in [E]TOD format, the chance of duplicates is pretty small indeed. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
