On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:22:34 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:


>Now an extended directory shows me:
>
>user@Solaris:469$ ls -alE
>total 38                                 Date       Time                zone
>drwxr-sr-x   2 user     513            4 2013-07-10 15:02:59.226383291 -0600 .
>drwxr-sr-x  57 user     513          355 2013-07-10 14:51:00.523492633 -0600 ..
>-rw-r--r--   1 user     513            0 2006-03-22 12:00:00.000000000 -0700 
>Touched-in-2006
>-rw-r--r--   1 user     513            0 2007-03-22 12:00:00.000000000 -0600 
>Touched-in-2007
>
>Solaris knows that the US/Mountain offset was 7 hours on March 22, 2006,
>and 6 hours on March 22, 2007.  z/OS doesn't know, and there's no way
>to tell it; there's no value that gives correct results for both 2006
>and 2007.
>
>(z/OS has no similar option for an extended directory listing.
>I think they're too embarassed to publicize such flaws.)
>

Complain, complain, complain.  :-)     You use the term "flaw" loosely. 
It may be a shortcoming compared to other unix environments that you 
work on or prefer, but I wouldn't call it a flaw.  Remember that z/OS unix
is based on the posix standard.  Does that standard have the extended
directory list?   There are so many other examples like this compared
to other *nix systems (or even "MVS" in general), that you may as
well call all of z/OS flawed going by your logic.   

Mark
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