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RE: iSeries Clock

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Chris Bipes wrote:

> How are you syncing to an NTP server.  The SNTP server in OS400 V5R1 does
> not set the hardware clock.  IBM does not provide a free NTP client to set

I just had an idea on this if you don't want to use a real ntp
implementation.  But it does require a *nix computer (that does use ntp if
you want accuracy).

Write a small and simple sockets program that connects to a *nix computer.
When the *nix computer receives the connection it runs 'date -u' (for time
in UTC: Fri Feb 28 00:30:52 UTC 2003) or 'date -R' (for RFC-822 compliant
date string: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:30:55 -0700) and then sends the result
over the socket to the iSeries.  iSeries parses and sets the date and
disconnects.  Run from the scheduler once a day.

James Rich

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