Re: Random String Generator

[Ralph Daugherty <rdjfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  to the second, but the issue was time being returned to milliseconds 
(microseconds are all zeros) in RPG time function and possibly to 
microsecnds (didn't get confirmation one way or the other) in the 
gettimeofday() API.

   And I was saying that I would think the source would be the same, an 
RTC chip in the iseries, so I don't know why RPG time microseconds would 
be zeroed if populated in the API. They should be populated the same.

 rd


Raul A. Jager W. wrote:
> I have two PCs at my desk, and the clock in both of them shows the same 
> time, to the second.
> They are both set to retrieve the time from the NTP in the AS/400, where 
> I have the client and server running.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
>
> > Ralph Daugherty skrev:
> >  
> >
> > >    well, I was talking about the difference between getting time in 
> > > milliseconds and microseconds, so it was tongue in cheek to suggest that 
> > > an accurate time was being retrieved over internet for gettimeofday() 
> > > :), but I looked up ntp and very impressive that this protocol has been 
> > > delivering time accurate to within 10 milliseconds since 1985 using 
> > > something with as cool a name as a jitter buffer.
> > >
> > >  
> > >    
> > It is pretty nice.  It is so 80'es to have different clock times on all 
> > computers :)
> >
> >  
> >
> > >    Having looked that up, I saw that ntp is built into Unix, Linux, and 
> > > a simplified version in Windows server. Do we have it in i5/OS, or at 
> > > least PASE?
> > >
> > >  
> > >    
> > There is two things.  The SERVER part, which you don't need, and a 
> > CLIENT.  It is the client that you need.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > > I've pulled together 170 classes so far, mostly from the Apache Batik 
> > > project, hopefully will get close to callable code pretty soon.
> > >
> > >  
> > >    
> > If you want to discuss this technically perhaps the java-400 list?  
> > Sounds like you are pulling stuff out of the jars to me.
> >
> >