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In the middle of coding a program to pre-process date, time, and timestamp input (or rather, to develop and test RPG functions to pre-process them), it suddenly occurred to me:

In RPG and DDS, and probably in a lot of other IBM-centric areas, the one-letter data-type code for a timestamp is "Z"

In German and related languages (probably including some romanizations of Yiddish), "Z" always has a TS sound.

Z = TS
Z = TimeStamp

I wonder if the individual who first decided that Z would be the code for timestamp actually realized that he/she was creating a multi-lingual pun . . .

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JHHL

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