Time Sync'ing 3

[BodgeTelecom]

Hi all

I have a problem with our option 11 Meridian in that the time is always 3 minutes, almost exactly, faster than our domain controller. That syncs with an atomic clock somewhere.
Having spoken to BT engineers they tell me that our Meridian syncs with the BT Exchange at 2am, and the Exchange syncs with an atomic clock. Somewhere.
But i'm wondering if the Meridian is actually syncing with anything because it's always 3 minutes faster than the PCs.
Can anyone tell me how to find out where, and if, the Meridian is syncing? And maybe how i can get it to get in sync with our domain?
I know this is available in rls 5, but we have rls 4.5 and we don't want to fork out to upgrade just to sync the time with the domain controller.

Thanks for your help!
Tim

 

[johnpoole]

Having spoken to BT engineers they tell me that our Meridian syncs with the BT Exchange at 2am, and the Exchange syncs with an atomic clock. Somewhere.

ask him to wind his atomic clock, mickie's and is not pointing "true" north.

do you (or anyone) log in once a day?

proc main  
integer iDay, iMonth, iYear, iMin, iHour, iSec
string sSend
  
   ltimeints $LTIME iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec
   
   strfmt sSend "STAD %02d %02d %d %02d %02d %02d" iDay iMonth iYear iHour iMin iSec
   set txpace 30
   transmit "****^M"
   waitfor ">"
   
  ; pause 6
   
   transmit "ld 2^M"
   waitfor "."
   
   transmit "TTAD^M"
   waitfor "."
   transmit sSend
   transmit "^M"
   waitfor "."
   
      transmit "TTAD^M"
  
   pause 2
   transmit "****^M"
 
  endproc

i use this as a call proc (aspect) in my 1st am routine.. it's syncs to the network.. but if your lucky to have a nortel that gains 2 minutes a day then you can adjust time in ld 2, either slow it down or speed one up, x number of seconds a day.. i don't have the commands here at home, but if you still need them monday, bump this back up and i will see it.. most eng. i know do know commands up to ld 2 at least... (ld 1 can take a while)..

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[MagnaRGP]

go into LD 2 and type TDTA <cr>

See if there is a daily time adjustment in there already. If not type SDTA X y

where X = 0 or 1 (you need 0 for a negative increment)
Y = # of increments of 100ms you would like to adjust on a daily basis.

Finally to set the time correctly type ttad to see what it currently is and then stad DD MM YYYY HH MM SS (it might be MM DD YYYY etc, I am doing this from memory).

 

[johnpoole]

have a star... i know that command is there, but i have never needed it.. i remember dd mm... it is reversed to what we use as typical, but that is the nortel creedo

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[BodgeTelecom]

Thanks guys,

I don't login everyday, only when someone wants their ring type changed or a button setup on their phone that automatically rings the cubicle next to them.
I'm always a bit wary of changing the time now as i did change the time before by about 20 seconds, or some tiny tiny amount, and it caused the symposium server to switch the customer services lines on 10 minutes late. Still i guess i did get called out to fix it (by the time i got there it had switched over - money for nothing).
Thanks again!
Tim

 

[Sympology]

Also I found that changing the time when using Symposium, can mess up the reports..

Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004