home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!MacUserLabs
- From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: TCP or NTP Time Clients for Mac?
- Message-ID: <72280@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:17:06 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Dec23.092702.11959@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Lines: 18
-
- Raoul Schaffner <raoul@inf.eawag.ch> writes:
-
- >I once installed the VersaTerm Time Client V1.1.3 and hooked it up to our
- >TCP time server (in fact, yesterday). The Time Client was able to
- >establish a connection and to set the Mac's internal clock quite well. But
- >then the seconds started to jump back and forth, which is not so good for
- >programs depending on a clock (like networking applications). I saw this
- >behaviour of the internal clock in the General Controls CP as well as in
- >the VersaTerm Time Client CP.
-
- Software wishing to set the Mac's clock programmatically can only do so
- with a granularity of one second. SetTime calls SetDateTime, which doesn't
- accept anything smaller than a second.
-
- What you're seeing is basically rounding error.
-
- __________________________________________________________________________
- Stephan Somogyi critical pathologist MacUser
-