For a contrary opinion, I believe IBM's documentation and function of the TOD clock to be quite adequate. The provided macros do the fairly involved arithmetic to convert a TOD number as-is, which is the most useful option. Adjusting for leap seconds, DST, and time zone can easily be done before conversion to a date/timestamp. If all those were built-in, you'd need several additional parameters to the macros to account for whether those operations were needed or not. That would complicate things for no particular benefit.
Regardless, if that's the function you want, then bid for it, or write it and sell it. IBM evidently doesn't see the business proposition, so prove them wrong. For me, I'd just as soon code the 2-3 extra instructions myself and know that I understand exactly what's happening. sas On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:46 AM Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > Peter, > > I really must speak up here in defense of Paul/Gil's long time position on > the failings of the STCKCONV/CONVTOD services. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
