RE: With the upcoming time change.... -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: With the upcoming time change....
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:07:47 -0600 (MDT)
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Booth Martin wrote:

> If you're going this far why not allow the Operating System to call home for
> a correct time?  OS/2 did that long ago.

Yup, this already exists: NTP.  Most AS/400 folks don't use it, though (at
least none of the people I know do).  Don't know why not.  It keeps the
clock syncronized with various atomic clocks around the world.

James Rich

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