RE: With the upcoming time change....

Consultline.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:53 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: With the upcoming time change....


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.

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