Leap seconds pretty much have to be of interest to you or you will be off by twenty seconds plus, probably too much to ignore. But they are not a big deal (spoken as one who recently had to solve this problem). They are available (assuming they have been input, and if not, then obviously all bets are off) in a CVT extension. They are stored in hardware clock units (of course we store a two-digit integral number of seconds as a 64-bit fraction!) but converting hardware clock units to seconds is not a big deal. (Shift right twelve and divide by a million as I recall.)
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Assembler - convrssion of Epoch (Unix) time to printable On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > ..., the UNIX epoch is simply a number. The number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT 1 Jan 1970. It would be rather easy to convert to yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss if it weren't for the "leap seconds". Which may or may not be of any interest to you. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
