Where does the time go?
The other day I was searching for the little document that I created when I first got here consisting of my teammates names, userids and extensions. (Our ID's are unrecognizable as anything meaningful). It's not that anything has changed, just that it's dog-eared and I wanted to print it again. When I found it, I noted the date of Jan 22, 2009.
As Carrie Bradshaw would say..."I had to wonder, where had the time gone?". Certainly four years is peanuts compared to the 20 I spent at IBM, but really, that seems to have occurred in the blink of an eye as well.
So after finding that doc, I procrastinated about a week, which brings us to March 12, which is just after daylight savings time weekend, making this actually topical! (Yes, I read that as tropical too!)
I started to think about where to get time. Here's what the MVS Systems Programmer in me came up with:
From a TSO TIME:
TIME-10:11:25 AM. CPU-00:00:04 SERVICE-288604 SESSION-04:00:38 MARCH 7,2013
From a D T:
RESPONSE=ACSE IEE136I LOCAL: TIME=12.43.37 DATE=2013.058 UTC RESPONSE=TIME=17.43.37 DATE=2013.058
From the ISPF Main Menu:
User ID . : MAM
Time. . . : 05:48
Terminal. : 3278
Screen. . : 1
Language. : ENGLISH
Appl ID . : ISR
TSO logon : ISPFSYS
From a REXX:
SUBSTR(TIME('N'),1,5)
There's SVC 11 to get you time. Or better yet, STCK.
Similar to ISPF, IPCS gives you the time also:
********************
* USERID - MAM
* DATE - 13/03/11
* JULIAN - 13.066
* TIME 10:14
* PREFIX - MAM
* TERMINAL- 3278
* PF KEYS - 24
********************
CA1 gives you time:
USERID - MAM
DATE - 2013/066
- 13.066
TIME - 10:17
GenLvl - 1104 SP00
Curiously TICTOC, AKA Application Time Facility, doesn't display a time on its main panel.
The RMF Panels will let you travel back in time. So will the SYSLOG, come to think of it. :)
Reading this was a complete and utter waste of your time, but hopefully it's entertaining!
Your link today is to http://www.timeanddate.com/
Till next time,
Mary Anne
z/OSSYgirl