On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:59:18 -0500, DanD wrote: >As TIME MIC is always the time since midnight of the current day, (as you >said) how useful is it if it crosses over midnight? > "current" in what zone? Local, UTC, or TAI.
>Without the DATE portion you can tell one job ran at 10:00 and the other ran >at 23:00 but which day? Yesterday? A year ago? >Again, doesn't sound very useful to me ;-) > You can window up t 24 hours. If the difference is negative, add 86,400,000,000 µsec. On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:03:56 -0500, DanD wrote: >Where's the LIKE button ;-) >I totally agree Paul. >I prefer STCK/STCKE format but when given data like the various forms of >TIME/DATE in the SMF30 record you have to deal with what you have. > >BTW, WHY are there so many formats in the SMF30? Maybe that's what happens >over time. > Conway's Law. But IIRC John Gilmore once argued that for some record types you want greatest precision; for others greatest range; and for all greatest storage economy. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
