Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

["Smith, Dave" <dsmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buck:

If I understand what you mean by "job time", I believe the answer is
neither.  The job time is retrieved from the hardware time (QHOUR...) at the
start of the job.

ON Tue, 14 May 2002, Buck Calabro wrote:

> I continue to be confused.  I just don't understand why I (programmer
type)
> need to worry about the software clock vs. the hardware clock.  iSeries is
> not a PC, and all my HLL programs read QHOUR whether directly or
indirectly
> unless I tell them to use the job time.

> The only question I think needs answering: does the SNTP client you use
> change job time or QHOUR?
>  --buck

Leif:

This is the explanation of the software clock from IBM:
http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info
/rzakt/rzaktkickoff.htm

As you will see, it is primarily used for Network Authentication Service
which I know very little about, but will learn.

You lost me on the "MI-Clock" and MATMATR.

ON Tue, 14 May 2002, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> What is the 'software clock'? never heard about this animal.
> The PowerPC chip maintains the 'real' hardware clock (the Time Base),
> from which the 'system clock' (QHOUR etc) is computed. Then there
> is the64-bit  'MI-clock' that you materialize with MATMATR.. But the
> 'software clock' ??