Re: Time Sync v5r3

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I once wrote something that got me close. I used the gettimeofday() API. It 
is valid in CL, as it expects pointers for the parameters. At any rate, it 
returns the current time in a so-called timeval structure - you can look up 
that in QSYSINC/H(TIME) member, IIRC - do a PDM search on QSYSINC/H if I'm 
wrong. It contains separate 2-byte integers for the various time 
components. String'm together and set QTIME. You will need to use %BIN in 
there somewhere.

HTH
Vern

At 11:59 AM 5/31/2005, you wrote:

> I have been setting up the new time sync (NTP) on my systems and partitions
> as each gets upgraded to v5r3.
> Now I hit my oldest box a small 170.  This hardware will not work with the
> v5r3 time feature.  It seems I can set the software clock BUT not the
> hardware clock.  I found an IBM Technote (#86256E0F00681558) entitled
> "Synchronization of the IBM iSeries Hardware Clock (QTIME) with the Software
> Clock That Exists on the Same System".  This uses Management Central to
> setup and run.  I have had no luck getting the time correct and would rather
> not use iSeries Access to run this.
>
> Does anyone have a better method setting the hardware clock from the
> software clock?
>
>
> ---
> Doug Hart
>
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