Yeah John, "standard" SMF timestamps are in local time. Sigh.

I have documented TWENTY-FIVE (really!) different date, time or date-and-time 
formats used in SMF records, although to be fair, perhaps a quarter or so of 
those are for non-IBM SMF records.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Christopher Y. Blaicher
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 10:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Speaking of time change...

John,
Where does SMF use UTC?  Most times are recorded as 'TIME SINCE MIDNIGHT IN 
HUNDREDTHS OF A SECOND'.  I have never seen a field in a SMF record for UTC 
offset.  Note: The new extended SMF record header does include the time in 
STCKE format, but I haven't seen any records that use the new header.

Some records do use some form of STCK for internal fields, SMF 33, 41, 70, 71, 
72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 88, 89, 90, 92, 98, 99, 104 and 113.  These are the 
exceptions, and not all of them are time of day, some are elapsed time 
expressed in STCK format.

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