[Info-vax] How to read system time from cluster node

[IanMiller]

On 26 Mar, 17:33, "jo jimbo" <joji... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote in message
>
> news:00141dcd$0$16154$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
>
> > Rogal wrote:
>
> >> CONFIG SHOW TIME/OUT.... method is perfectly what I needed :).
>
> > Note that SYSMAN does sequential queries to cluster nodes. The time
> > difference between the queries may be minimal, but you should be aware
> > of it.
>
> That's not quite true in the case of the config commands.  For example, in
> the docs for config set time it is noted that:
>
>  "SYSMAN uses special processing in an OpenVMS Cluster environment to ensure
> that all processors in the cluster are set to the same time. Because of
> communication and processing delays, it is not possible to synchronize
> clocks exactly. However, the variation is typically less than a few
> hundredths of a second. If SYSMAN cannot set the time to within one half
> second of the specified time, you receive a warning message that names the
> node that failed to respond quickly enough."
>
> Regards,  Jim



and if you want to sychronise the time between cluster nodes then
perhaps you should NTP