On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 23:43:34 +0000, Jon Perryman wrote: > If time were as simple to solve as UTC and a 1 byte UTC offset, then this > problem would have been solved a long time ago. As I said before, everyone > assumes the time zone is fixed. What happens when the time zone is at the > time the data is reference instead of created. > This is addressed by: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
>As for localtime better than the z/OS implementation, that's silly. First, bad >is still bad. Second, C local time is a language feature instead of OS >feature. > Only because you call it so. The TIME macro is a language (HLASM) feature instead of OS feature. Third, it was designed around a specific Unix feature (environment variables). It needs redesign for use in CICS, IMS and most z/OS components. > There are other ways to pass such a parameter. It could be a PARMLIB entry. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN