I'd say first: there must be a reason to store the creation time. What was the reason?
So if IBM decided to store the creation time rounded only to minutes or seconds, people would complain that it should be more accurate. If so, it is a wise decision to store it accurate enough for now and the near future to avoid duplicate creation times, remember the job readertime 'accuracy'? Kees. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 14:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Age of datasets in hours, not days? John Gilmore wrote: >These six bytes are thus entirely adequate to contain any unsigned elapsed- µ >- sec value in a 24-hour day. Agreed. Only if all users of that 6 bytes are still using it as *un-signed* value. There must be a reason, why such precision is needed? Any one willing to share what that reason is? Only precise answers on a punch card, please... ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht John, am I correct, you're refering to 'lower-case letter mu (μ)' ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
