On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:12:20 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>
>http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB5A0/E.6.2
>
>The value in the word returned by this routine is in seconds-since-1/1/1970, 
>but, unlike the value returned by the C library time() function and expected 
>by localtime(), it includes leap seconds, so for current dates it is 24 
>seconds too high.
> 
No, it's correct; POSIX is the one that's wrong here.  (Those
who suspect me of being invariably biased toward UNIX,
please note.)

>The value is also used in the Rexx code at these links:
>
>ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/s390/zos/tools/wjsip/wjsigamu.txt
>
>ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/zos/tools/wjsigshl/wjsigshl.txt

-- gil

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