topic Re: setting time to external clock in Operating System - OpenVMS

setting time to external clock

Rosemary Jones — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:45:27 GMT

How do you set the time to an external clock devices via IP?

Re: setting time to external clock

Willem Grooters — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:57:15 GMT

Rosemary,

Have you considered enabling the NTP-protocol?
$ @sys$manager:TCPIP$CONFIG
choose server components
enable NTP protocol

You will have to specify which other peers should be contacted to get the time from.

Look for details in the TCPIP documentation (http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732final/6526/6526pro_028.html#ntp_chap)

(for 7.3-2, TCPIP 5.4, but similar are available for previous versions; but I think this new documentation is valid for the previous versions as well)

Willem

Re: setting time to external clock

Lokesh_2 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:49:58 GMT

Hi,

Beside NTP as mentioned by Willem, you can use DTSS too with Decnet-plus.

Thanks & regards,
Lokesh

Re: setting time to external clock

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:15:01 GMT

Hi,

and the ultra short guide to setting up NTP can be found at

http://zinser.no-ip.info/eng/vms/qaa/NTP.HTMLX

Greetings, Martin

Re: setting time to external clock

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:51:01 GMT

On this question, does anyone have a list of 'reliable' UK NTP servers?

Rob.

Re: setting time to external clock

Martin P.J. Zinser — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:07:24 GMT

Hello Robert,

sorry no, I would have expected the NWML to provide one but could not find an indication that they actually do. OTOH Germany is not to far away, so you might be able to use the PTB server (as long as your timezone information is correct it does not matter that the clocks in the UK go different than in D ;-)

Greetings, Martin

Re: setting time to external clock

Bradford Hamilton_1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:55:36 GMT

re: list of UK NTP servers

Hi Rob,

Try this link (UK at bottom):

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html