[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Henry Umansky]

Pitt has an open time server, time.pitt.edu.  Try to telnet to that server 
if you ever need to know the exact time, I wonder if all time servers do 
that too.

-Henry

--On Friday, March 14, 2003 12:14 PM -0500 Mike Griffin 
<mike at dmrnetworks.com> wrote:r

> I think you have it right there. NTP.  If you have I-net access to one of
> your boxes, shouldn't you be updating via NTP anyhow? the time on all
> computers drift, I think this should ALMOST be a 'requirement' when you
> setup a network configuration.
>
> There are tons of servers to sync time with, some of which you have to
> ask permission, and I don't recall ever coming across one that you have
> to pay for. If you need one but can't find one, or just don't feel like
> looking, you can use mine: clock.dmrnetworks.com
> which is synced to stratum 1 and 2 time servers.
>
> Mike Griffin
> Director of Network Services
> DMR Networks
> 412.798.2525 x117
> mike at dmrnetworks.com
> http://www.dmrnetworks.com
>
> On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Coutch, Robert wrote:
>
>> Enlighten me!
>>
>> I don't ever recall having a problem with the Linux computers switching
>> between EST and EDT.
>> They just do it automatically. As mentioned earlier, my timezone is
>> always
>> set for New York.
>> I also use NTP and maybe that's fixing it.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>>> Why not just set the timezone on your linux box to EST5EDT or
>>> ----<CHOP>-----
>>>
>>> <Summarize> Program to fix Daylight savings time issue </Summarize>
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Henry Umansky
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