I believe the LPAR get's it's time from the SE, the internal Laptop in your box. You can set the time from the HMC to the SE's if you want, but I believe it is a manual process. Larry Davis
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize HMC's TOD clock to MF TOD clock Mr. West, THANK YOU! Now if we can get Mr. Altmark or Mr. Bitner to confirm (in other words, "Dudes, please reply to this!") you just solved an incredibly huge problem for us. Judson West wrote: It's my understanding that at LPAR activation, the clock in the LPAR is sync'ed with the HMC. After that, it is on it's own.