On Sat, 19 May 2007 08:42:28 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:19 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >> But then, my experience with TOD drift against a known standard has been >> rather remarkable. Quite seriously, it has been only a few seconds over >> a year's period of time. > >Perception. >Corporate LAN runs off to a timesource every so often - all the users >ever see is a consistent (correct) time value. >Mainframe (even with ETR) wanders around always "off-time" - unless it >also synchs to a (different) timesource. Given the questions we see here >on the list, I wonder if the majority of ETRs aren't synched to an >atomic source at all, but set locally. > >It's about time IBM allowed the clock correction to be driven by an >"accepted" source. Maybe the next step will be to just be a (local) >client like everyone else. >It's just a server after all ... > >Shane ... > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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