Many thanks Mike and Ian. Exactly the sort of info I was looking for (what seems so long ago now ;-). -- bc
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington <[email protected]>wrote: > You should probably be using the server pool for this kind of thing rather > than an individual server. > > See http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us for more information > > i > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: 06:09 PM COT, 11/04/2009 > From: Michael Harding <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Using PIPE to obtain the GMT time from an ntp server? > > > Referring to http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm > > > > For your basic needs: > > Pipe literal |tcpclient nist1.symmetricom.com 13 oneresponse|xlate a2e| > > cons > > 55139 09-11-04 21:09:38 00 0 0 0.0 UTC(NIST) * > > Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:09:37 > > > > That's a left-coast server. Depending on where you are you might choose > a > > wrong-coast one, Or try several ;-) There's a link on the referenced > page > > to servers. > > -- > > Mike Harding > > z/VM System Support > > > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > (925) 926-3179 (w) > > (925) 457-9183 (c) > > IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) > > > > > > CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on > > 11/03/2009 06:54:49 AM: > > > > > From: Bob Cronin <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: 11/03/2009 06:55 AM > > > Subject: Re: Using PIPE to obtain the GMT time from an ntp server? > > > Sent by: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <[email protected] > > > > > > > > Our VM clocks are so far off that I wouldn't even care if the answer I > > got > > > from the ntp server was a few seconds off because of latency... > > > -- > > > bc > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin < > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is there a stage that talks to OpenEdition CMS? (I have _no_ > > > > > experience with OpenEdition CMS.) If so, all that's necessary > > > > > is to capture the output of "TZ=GMT0 date". > > > > > > > > > > (In TSO it's easy enough with "address SYSCALL".) > > > > > > > > This is cheating. Sure, if you assume the operating system has the > > > > right time, you just ask there... > > > > > > > > A pipeline to encode and decode the NTP packets should not be that > > > > hard. But even with a pipeline that can handle those you probably > > > > still need to follow the protocol that does several requests to > > > > eliminate the effect of network latency. This is why the ntp client > > > > takes a while to "stabilize" before it adjusts the OS correction > > > > factors. > > > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > >
