<snip> "Usually" is slippery. When you need it, it's important. </snip> And if someone truly needs it, then they should make a business case and submit an RFE for it.
<snip> > and even a bad idea to save UTC time, as opposed to saving the >STCK(E) value. > Why? </snip> Perhaps because of the lack of processing of leap seconds. <snip> Those data are readily available. The work is already done for you: https://www.iana.org/time-zones </snip> One thing that is missing is any intrinsic knowledge of exactly where the data was collected such as which time zone, which country, which state, whatever. <snip> On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:39:08 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >... The documentation says "The STCKCONV macro converts an input >time-of-day (TOD) clock value to time of day and date, and returns the >converted values to the caller in the format requested. " This is correct >and is complete and is all that the service can say. > I (and apparently you) disagree about "complete". The doc could at least specify timezone. It seems to be, "none, rather TAI-27 seconds.) </snip> You continue to make this (to me) unfounded statement. As has been mentioned before, there is no reason to talk about a timezone in this context. A time-of-day clock value is a time-of-day clock value. That value is defined in PoP. Since 0 represents 1900 and since bit 51 ticks every microsecond, bits 0-51 form a number that is the number of microseconds since 1900. I'd be quite happy to have the documentation clarify that the conversion does not account for leap seconds. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN