RE: With the upcoming time change....

Hi, Jeff:

Well, that's where I was going next, actually, but Bruce (btw, thanks for
the nice feedback, man) beat us both to it.

NTP has been available for many, many years.  In fact (probably) the very
atomic clock that feeds your clock at home is responsible for maintaining
many of the systems out there in (inter)network land, around the world.

But I've probably chosen a bad soapbox here.  Probably at least part of the
reason IBM is so very successful with their AS/400 marketing, and the
reason that NT, Unix and all the others are doing so poorly, is that IBM is
holding to their older, proven approach.  Who needs all that newfangled
technology and ease of operation, anyway?  Yeah, yeah.  Now I'm beginning
to understand.

Don't you think?  :)
Dennis






Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@itm-group.co.uk>@midrange.com on 10/25/2002 10:57:47
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... what would be even more useful ...

I have a relatively inexpensive clock at home that checks a specific radio
frequency periodically, from where it can receive the time accurately from
an atomic clock; it keeps itself adjusted perfectly all year,
daylight-saving changes too.  Now a similar device could be installed in a
computer I'm sure, or perhaps even better, attached to a network for all
servers and clients to synchronise their internal clocks to.  I would find
it difficult to believe that such a gadget would not sell, or perhaps it
has
already been invented, but the poor inventor gave the marketing contract to
the same company responsible for the iSeries :-)

Jeff Bull