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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Frank Haverkamp, Tuebingen, DE;
Thilo Maurer, Nufringen, DE;
Markus Buehler, Schoenbuch, DE;
Michael Klaus Kroener, Ehningen, DE;
Timothy Lindquist, Rochester, MN (US);
Tristan Müller, Tübingen, DE;
Todd A. Greenfield, Rochester, MN (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Synchronizing time-of-day (TOD) between TOD components includes issuing an order for a plurality of TOD components, each including a local time, an offset, and an effective time as a sum of the local time and the offset. The effective time of a reference TOD component is the reference time to which target TOD component(s) are to be synchronized. The order directs each of the plurality of TOD components to synchronously, at a point in time, snapshot its local time. This provides a snapshot of the effective time of the reference TOD component, and thus the reference time. The synchronizing synchronizes each target TOD component to the reference time by setting the respective offset as a difference between the target TOD component's snapshot local time and the snapshot of the reference time. Based on the synchronizing, the effective times of the plurality of TOD components match and are the reference time.