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Jerry --
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 11:25 AM (WalzCraft) Jerry Forss <
JForss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a little stored procedure that is called from the network side
every Sunday to sync the time.
This is why the Sublime Deities of the Internet invent the Network Time
Protocol <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol>, supported
for decades on IBM i.
Every week the IBMi is behind by 6 seconds.
Any idea why there would be such a drift?
Because the crystals sold to generate time pulses are off by a few shades
of a Hz which has been the case for 50 years.
And it wouldn't matter if they were exactly right, because NIST and others
change the time from time to time.
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