Keeping the OpenVMS system time synchronized?
To help keep more accurate system time or to keep your system clocks synchronized, TCP/IP Services NTP, DECnet-Plus DTSS (sometimes known as DECdtss), DCE DTS, and other techniques are commonly used. If you do not or cannot have IP access to one of the available time-base servers on the Internet, then you could use dial-up access to NIST or other authoritative site, or you can use a direct connection to a local authorative clock. There exists code around that processes the digital (ie: binary) format time that is available via a modem call into the NIST clock (the Automated Computer Telephone Service (ACTS) service), and code that grabs the time off a GPS receiver digital link, or a receiver (effectively a radio and a codec) that processes the time signals from radio stations WWV, WWVH, WWVB, or similar. Processing the serial or hardware time protocols often involves little more than reading from an EIA232 (RS232) serial line from the receiver, something that is possible from most any
