On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:31:21 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>Does he have a leap seconds issue? STCK needs leap seconds adjustment which I 
>assume STCKCONV does. 
>
I suspect STCKCONV does not.  But Peter Relson insists that whatever STCKCONV 
does
is "common knowledge", so needs no (further) documetation; no mention of time 
zones
nor of leap seconds.  It is what it was before 1972; why fix it or even 
describe it?

> ... Does TIME MIC need that, or will it be redundant?
>
>In any event you have time zone considerations. Does the OP want UTC or local 
>time?
>
>And I can hear @Gil firing up his keyboard right now to say that STCKCONV is 
>inadequately documented ...
>
>Wait a minute:
>
>"MIC returns the time of day since midnight in microseconds. The value is 
>returned as 8 bytes of information where bit 51 is equivalent to one 
>microsecond."
>
Midnight where?

>How are you going to get a day and a year out of that?

-- gil

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