[wplug] Daylight Saving Time

[Mike Griffin]

Most NTP servers are UDP (port 123) only. TCP may be setup for peers, 
other than that, it is insecure.


On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 08:07 AM, Henry Umansky wrote:

> 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
> hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
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