Greetings;

Linux will set its clock like any well behaved system. If you can and
want to you can set up the usual ntp (Network Time Protocol) functions
and synchronize your linux machines time to the rest of the world. This
requires internet access, which is where the "can" comes in. Or you can
get the time from a time server on your lan.

Unfortunately, VM and OS can't do this yet. Unless something has been
quietly added in z/VM. I think there is a time server available, but I
haven't investigated it.

As for the difference between your VM host and the linux guest there are
many possibilities. Choose whether to synchronize to VM or to ROW,
use a date command to set your linux clock and be happy! ;-)

Good Luck!
Dennis





Jean Bedard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/11/2002 03:16:46 PM

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Hi,

I'm a bit confused here. I thought Linux (SuSE Linux in this case) took the
date and time from VM (or from the hardware), but now I realize that on my
zVM 4.2 system, CP QUERY TIME is currently about 90 seconds ahead of the
results of the Linux "date" command. How can it be?
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