Re: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

At 08:58 AM 5/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Can someone using SNTP on an iSeries (V5R1) please respond to the following
>questions. They are being asked based on the fact that there is a "machine"
>time (QHOUR, QMINUTE, Qetc...) and a "system software" clock on the beloved
>iSeries.  SNTP keeps the system software clock in sync with our NTP server.
>I am aware some API's use the system software clock but most logging and
>commands and HLL programs use the machine time. Is that true?

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>2.  What do you recommend in the spring and the fall when the machine times
>and the coordinated universal time offset need to manually be changed on the
>AS/400?  The customer I am working for generally changes the 'Q' values at
>the end of the next business day (when all their processes are done running
>in the spring and fall when the time changes for daylight savings.

I recently started the SNTP client. It stopped without adjusting anything
because the UTC offset was an hour off. Our max adjustment was 20 minutes,
but the time was an hour away, so it failed, and the client ended. So you
need to make the changes, I think.

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