Re: System Time

["JacksonLea; A unit of Jason, Incorporated" <jacklea@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:02 PM 9/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Our system time was slow by 2 minutes and it cause a  trade to fail.  We
>loss thousands of dollars.  We change our system time only twice a year  for
>daylight savings time.  Is it possible that we could have had the right time
>at one point and the clock on the AS/400 is slow like a regular watch when
>it no longer functions properly? 

The AS/400 clock can be defective.  I had an As/400 that lost a minute and
a half every day.  The clock board had to be replaced as it was not
adjustable.  

 I think our operators must have put the
>wrong time to begin with on QTIME system value.  Does anyone dial to the
>national observatory to set the right time on their system? 


There is a PC program called AtomTime95  version 1.4b
by Bruce Adelsman,  copyright 1996, 1997
All rights reserved, a freely distributed application that updates the time
on a PC.

By default, AtomTime uses the Atomic Clock server in Boulder, CO.  NOTE:
This server reports the time in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and should
work fine for everyone, regardless of where in the world you live, as long
as you have the correct time zone and daylight savings settings under the
Windows 95 Date/Time control panel.

I have not tried to move the time to the AS/400.  That would be an
interesting application.

 



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G. Wayne Calvert
Information Systems Manager
JacksonLea
A unit of Jason Incorporated

APICS CPIM certified

jacklea@jacksonlea.com
http://www.jacksonlea.com

(800) 439-9304 x 3314
(828) 464-1376 x 3314
(828) 464-7094 Fax
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