On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 12:26:38 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:

>On 3 January 2017 at 11:23, Paul Gilmartin
><0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>> Sometimes I sneer at z/OS for sidestepping the problem by shutting down
>> for the leap second and suggest that instead the TIME macro should return
>> hh:59:60 for the duration.  But sometimes I succumb to reality:
>
>TIME has options to return several other formats, including TOD-style
>time. What would it do with those, where the hh:59:60 representational
>notion doesn't work?
>
TOD is a 64 (128?)  bit binary number.  It's oblivious to leap seconds,
like TAI.  Where do you see a problem?

-- gil

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