On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:02:16 -0600 Dennis G. Wicks said: >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. >
There is a time server available for VM. It is free to download at the VM web site www.vm.ibm.com under the download directory. I have been using it to set the time on other systems at my organization and it works well. Aria >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 > >Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: (bcc: Dennis Wicks/infosvcs/CDG) >Subject: VM and Linux time of day > > > > > >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? >-- >* Jean Bedard >* VM System Manager S.I.T., Universite Laval >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (418) 656-2131 ext. 4014
