[PLUG] DST Sunday morning - Check your system, Win users beware

Frank Hunt linux at frankhunt.com
Sat Mar 10 20:37:26 UTC 2007


NTP operates on UTC, not local time.  NTP packets to not contain 
information regarding local time zone offset or DST rollover 
information.  It is up to the local system to provide the local time - 
by way of offset from UTC.  For Pacific, that's 8 for standard time and 
7 for daylight savings time.  It is up to the local system to adjust the 
offset from 8 to 7 in the spring and 7 to 8 in the fall.  That's the 
rub.  Then, of course, there's JRE which does it's own time thing.


Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> If my computers are checking in with a time standard on the Internet,
> won't that solve the problem?
> 

-- 
frank hunt
PLUG member-in-absentia
confused linux admin
part time windows(r) washer
rochester hills, mi



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