At your acquaintance's site, they might have to set the HMC time first. It depends upon their setup.
If they are using STP, then they shouldn't have to manually set the clock on the HMC since the system will get its time directly from the STP server. Based upon what you wrote, I suspect they aren't using STP. If you do a POR and you don't have STP, then the system's time will come from the Support Element. Now the SE's time could come from an HMC and that HMC could get its time from an NTP server or even a different system that has STP. But, as I said, I suspect they aren't using STP nor do they have things set up to have the SE get the time from an HMC that is using an external time reference (NTP or another system with STP) to keep the HMC's clocks set. That means they just use the HMC's time of day facility as their main time source. If this is true, then they will have to use the HMC to set the clocks up correctly for the time and time zone that they want, since they are using their HMC as the master time source. I suggest you ask some more questions about how they have things set up time-wise on both their hardware and with the Operating System(s) they are running. Unfortunately, if they really are using the HMC's time as the master, then they may have to set up the HMC's time (and time zone) appropriately. Tom Mathias ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
