On Tue, 21 May 2013 10:06:12 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote: >On Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:41 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >> >>Also, thanks for your STCK(E) converter. >>http://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/toolsTOD.php Have used that from time to >>time. >> > The STCK converter is not handling leap seconds. If you give it STCK values > from various years listed in chapter 4 of Principles of Operation, the > returned time for many of them is off by approximately (not exactly) the > number of leap seconds that were not taken into account. > Isn't that for compatibility with the STCKCONV macro?
>Also, if you give it the value 7d91048bca000000 for 1/1/1970 (not in the >manual) it says it is before Jan 1 1970. That's not a leap seconds problem, >but it is incorrect. > Sounds like a POSIX limitation. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
