On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:30:52 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The TOD clock is just a counter; what you get out of it depends on what you >put into it. There is a convention in PoOps, but if you want the correct time >and date it is much easier to use system services than to do the adjustments >yourself. > >MVS does not use the same epoch as Eunix. Unix System Services will adjust the >epoch properly. > UNIX counts seconds, excluding leap seconds, starting 1970-01-01t00:00:00 MVS counts microseconds/4096, including leap seconds, starting 1900-01-01t00:00:10.
>________________________________________ >From: ITschak Mugzach >Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 10:36 AM > >How exactly STCK (not STCKE) stores the time? I took the value (8 bytes) >and converted it to decimal 10 characters. I expect it to be the same as >the EPOCH time returned by USS time call. However the returned value is July >29, 2019 (have a time from yesterday). I know there is a macro to do it, >but I want to keep the correct epoch time. > I'm mystified (unless it's a coding error) by the 6-month error. Show your code. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
