On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 05:47:38 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: > >>Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time >>zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values. >> >>The table involved is short; it is ordered; it can be searched using >>very efficient glb-seeking binary search; this table grows very >>slowly; elements can be added to it before their effective dates; >>ample advance notice of requirements to add new elements and their >>effective dates (always one of two) is provided; etc., etc. > >All true. And all too bad IBM did not implement such table into their C >library functions. > Sounds like material for a Requirement. And ICANN provides the necessary data; I've posted the link a couple times in this thread.
But is there a business justification? Alas, "Most of the rest of the world does it that way" is unlikely to suffice. To IBM's credit, the one time I reported a leap second error in an IBM product, they swiftly provided a PTF, properly, IMO, switching to use the TIME macro instead of STCK and ad-hoc conversion. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
