But there are no dates or years in the question, only duration. And the durations are by implication well under a year.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: STCK question On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:13:31 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Leap seconds are irrelevant. Let's say the routine being measured took >86,710 seconds. You would be completely correct in saying it took 1 >day, 5 minutes and 10 seconds even if the run happened to span a >midnight at which a leap second was added. The TOD clock is ignorant of >leap seconds. They are solely about keeping the world's civil clocks aligned >with solar noon. > But those civil clocks are used for legal purposes. Failure to account for a leap second might result (possibly; however improbably) in a calculated incorrect date, or even an incorrect year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
