On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:03:38 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:59:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > ... >>TRY fetch CVTLSO >> STCK >> compare fetched value to CVTLSO >> BNE TRY > >I did that sort of thing on a CMS system IIRC where I needed millisecond >resolution. I had one API that gave me TOD and one that gave me STCK. I called >TOD, then STCk, then TOD to see if it had changed. Seemed to work well. > If they disagreed, did you do another STCK?
>>Two additional instructions for a hazard that occurs only every few months. > >Or not at all: https://www.livescience.com/goodbye-leap-second-2035 > "At any time there's a one-second offset, we can let it go until it compounds to a minute or more and then make the time change every century or more," Tavella said. Kick it down the road; our grandchildren will figure it out. I've seen a proposal for leap hours -- we do that every November anyway. Then we could skip the next "Spring Forward". Who could complain about that? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
