RE: With the upcoming time change....

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin

Is that the old ConsultLine client, or the newer TCP "server" client - why
do they call a client a server?   :-(

Thanks

Vern

At 10:35 AM 10/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
> QZRDSNTP is the sbs that the IBM time sync job runs in.  At a previous
> company I worked for we used this, it updated time every 5 minutes.  No
> problems in 3 years other than when going to V5R1 the system generated a
> false "backplane failure" right after a time sync, an APAR was opened and a
> PTF was issued to fix the problem.
>
> jch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: With the upcoming time change....
>
>
> From: Neil Palmer <neilp@dpslink.com>
> > Methinks Bruce knows something he's not telling !  ;-)
>
> One of the problems with adjusting the system time regularly
> (e.g. with real-time input from a "gadget") is that the internal
> system time is also used as the basis for generating *unique*
> timestamps (some fiddling with the lower bits). This function
> would probably not work anymore if you constantly adjust
> the system time up or down by small amounts.