Well yes, I don't know much about the topic but your question reminds me of a time working for a large Aerospace company when catia models were being created and modified by engineers across the globe, the indexing tool was DB2 to keep everything in sync our mainframe systems and the systems across the globe needed to use, at the time GMT time to ensure the integrity of the model being modified. moving from LOCAL time to GMT was a project in itself
Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Mills" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 9:33:48 AM Subject: Re: CVTLSO race (was: ... STCKCONV ... If a mainframe process is synchronizing with an off-box process, or engaging in communications that contains a timestamp governed by a standard, isn't "true" UTC a requirement? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 5:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CVTLSO race (was: ... STCKCONV ... Is it worth reminding that leap second offset and time zone are basically for human consumption? The values used for real processing ought to be the value returned by STCK/STCKE/STCKF unmodified. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
