On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:02:57 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:33:36 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>I shudder whenever I read in the PoOp that bit 31 of
>>the TOD clock toggles once per megamicrosecond (sic, IIRC).
>
>Ummm.....
>I think it has always said that bit 51 increments every microsecond. It
>says that bit 31 increments every 1.048576 second.
>
OK. Not in the PoOp, but certainly in the diagram on p. 3 of
International Technical Support Organization
Server Time Protocol Planning Guide
December 2006
SG24-7280-00
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247280.pdf
I know; it's merely a Redbook; not subject to the intense peer
review of a RM.
-- gil
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