[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Lance Tost]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ivan Jager wrote:
> On 2003.03.14 12:22 Lance Tost wrote:
> > NTP is very valuable (I use it on all servers at home and work)...
> > however, it has nothing to do with timezones.
>
> Except that if your clock is set to local time instead of UTC, it will allow
> your computer to see what time it really is and adjust the time apropriately.

Not true.  The Linux system clock is an absolute number (number of seconds
since 1/1/1970) and is in UTC on every machine.  NTP is unaware of
timezones and should be unaware.


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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>