Tony: > But to be clear, there is no internal way to determine the difference > between STCK time and UTC/GMT. The clock is presumed to be set to UTC, > and those CVT fields are set to the offset(s) of local time from UTC. But > there is nothing to prevent an installation from setting TOD clock to > whatever they want, and indeed a surprising number of shops seem to still > set it to local time, though the practice has been deprecated for decades.
Yes, I understand. I used to do that myself, when I was a rookie. Paul: > Note that because CVTLDTO changes periodically and CVTLSO > changes secularly, this procedure is not correct for > timestamps stored in log files. I won't be using this on historical data so I think that I'm OK. > And it doesn't provide the identifier. Rats. I guess I'll just use "Local". Thanks again, all. /Mike
