On Monday, 08/01/2011 at 05:06 EDT, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > o The SE BOC will be steered the match the CEC TOD instead of making large > > jumps, avoiding a Paradox that could destroy the universe. > > I would not be suprised to find the "steering" to be more conceptually > speaking. The common approach with consumer grade battery clocks is > that the regular synch compares the two and records the apparent drift > of the battery clock. Whenever you need to use the battery clock (at > POR) you have the time of last synch, the current time according to > the battery clock and the recorded drift. Those 3 let you make a > pretty good guess about the current true time. > > Time will tell ;-)
The engineers are using the word "steer." Personally, I think graviton emitters are used to slow or speed up time, but you might be right.. :-) In any case, prior to this change, the SE clock [you can see it on the screen] would change without regard for the size or direction of the jump. Now, time moves only forward and will speed up or slow down in small increments in order to reach the target time. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
