[Info-vax] Clock running very slow on an Alpha

[Peter Weaver]

> Is the clock rate steady ? You could run a recurring bacth job that
> would adjust the clock by a few seconds every 15 minutes, and let NTP do
> the rest.

I am running ntpdate every 5 minutes (based on that Alpha's clock) and the
clock resets about 2.8 to 3.4 seconds each time. 

> Question:
>
> when you do SET TIME, does it update the TOY clock, or does it use the
> TOY clock value to update the internal clock ?

I tried that once, the VMS time was about 10 minutes slow before I issued
the command, the time was about 5 minutes slow after issuing the SET TIME
command.

> If there were a way to read the TOY clock value and use it as the VMS
> time, it may also provide a temporary solution with recurring bacth job
> to reset the system clock. (I realise that TOY is no longer the proper
> terminilogy for Alpha, but you know what I mean).

SET TIME/CLUSTER fixes the time when I issue the command from another node,
so does 
MCR SYSMAN
SET ENV/CLUS
CONFIG SET TIME



Peter Weaver
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