Re: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

From: Bruce Vining <bvining@us.ibm.com>
> While there is currently the concept of a job date associated with a job, I
> do not believe you will currently find any attribute such as "job time"
> associated with a job on the system.
>
> There is system time (basically the time associated with the system clock
> and accessed with system values such as QHOUR, MI such as MATTOD, HLL
> operations such as RPGs TIME, etc.) and the software clock time (used by
> very few system components and accessed with software clock specific APIs).
> Unless you have specific need to be aware of the software clock, it
> generally can be ignored (and I feel safe in saying is probably unknown to
> 99.99% of iSeries developers).
>

Bruce,
Educate us about the software clock (APIs etc). To evaluate if I have a
"need"
to be aware of the software clock, I need to know what is for, etc.