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

[Rogal]

On 26 Mar, 22:01, Michael Austin <maus... at firstdbasource.com> wrote:
> Rogal wrote:
> > Hello!
>
> > I've been using VMS for just a few weeks, so this question may be
> > lame :). I need to write DCL script which compares system time drift
> > between two nodes in a cluster (VMS 7.3). Is there any method to fetch
> > system time from another node? I hoped that F$GETSYI would have such
> > capability but no...
>
> > thanks in advance
>
> > MR
>
> Is there some reason you are not using NTP to keep systems in sync?

NTP is used there  but I need additional control over this - in case
of failure of some kind. As this machine is a GSM SMS Centre where
timestamps are critical, I need an alert to be raised when clock skew
is more than 15-20 seconds.

MR