[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Robert Jones]

Yes that is the case for COBOL in both the 2007 and 2014 standards

Robert

On 26/09/2016 16:02, Brooks Harris wrote:
> On 2016-09-26 10:23 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
>> Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> wrote:
>>> The short of it is Windows behave just like POSIX as far as I can tell,
>>> except its epoch, represented as struct FILETIME, is 
>>> 1601-01-01T00:00:00
>>> (UTC-like), which is, apparently the COBOL epoch (I didn't track down
>>> the references on that).
>> It turns up when converting formatted dates to integer count-of-days.
>>
>> http://community.microfocus.com/microfocus/cobol/extend_and_acucobol/f/20/t/9565.aspx 
>>
>> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ceea300/clccbld.htm 
>>
> I've seen a couple explanations of "January 1, 1601" epoch, for 
> example,  this mentions "The ANSI Date defines January 1, 1601 as day 
> 1, and is used as the origin of COBOL integer dates. "
>
> What is the significance of January 1, 1601?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10849717/what-is-the-significance-of-january-1-1601 
>
>
> I didn't try to find the relevant "ANSI Date" definitions, if they exist.
>
> -Brooks
>
>>
>> Tony.
>
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