yes I know but I don't use any of those programs and I built my system up from scratch. so I need to rebuild the whole thing to have it working right. and I see now that ntpd just looks at your locla zoneinfo file to see if it's dst or not
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David J. Andruczyk</b> <<a href="mailto:djandruczyk@yahoo.com">djandruczyk@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ntpdate will NOT fix the issue with APPLICATIONS that use the C<br>library and zoneinfo (i.e. everything) to determine time...<br><br>--- matt donovan <<a href="mailto:kitchetech@gmail.com">kitchetech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br><br>> well I have to rebuild my whole system but they say that ntpdate<br>> will fix it<br>><br>> On 2/21/07, Robert Meyer <<a href="mailto:meyer_rm@yahoo.com">meyer_rm@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >
<br>> > This is not true. Linux/Unix thinks in GMT (UTC for time<br>> buffs). When<br>> > dates are reported, the library call uses the timezone<br>> information from the<br>> > system to convert it to localtime on the fly. If your system's
<br>> library<br>> > routines (in Unix/linux the timezone files) aren't correct for<br>> the timezone<br>> > change differences, you will have a system that reports the<br>> time incorrectly<br>> > after the DST change. So for three weeks, your clock will be
<br>> off. If you<br>> > force the clock to show the correct value, then the system's<br>> concept of GMT<br>> > will be off by an hour. ntpdate will do everything in GMT on a<br>> Linux/Unix<br>
> > box. It will try to set the system's clock to the proper GMT<br>> which means<br>> > that localtime routines will be off.<br>> ><br>> > Lots of apps use local time to do things, such as cron or any
<br>> calendering<br>> > app. Failure to fix the timezone data will cause those apps to<br>> be wrong.<br>> ><br>> > I know this 'cuz I just had to patch a whole pile of machines<br>> at work,
<br>> > lest our apps start doing stupid things.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers!<br>> ><br>> > Bob<br>> ><br>> > ----- Original Message ----<br>> > From: matt donovan <<a href="mailto:kitchetech@gmail.com">
kitchetech@gmail.com</a>><br>> > To: <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:55:54 PM<br>> > Subject: Re: [nflug] Daylight saviings time<br>> >
<br>> > if you use another distro just use ntpdate and you should be<br>> fine that's<br>> > how I m doing it.<br>> ><br>> > On 2/15/07, Mark T. Valites < <a href="mailto:mark-nflug@valites.net">
mark-nflug@valites.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, anthonyriga wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > > With the new DST enacted this year will that have any<br>> affect on Linux
<br>> > > to<br>> > > > know the changes?<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Sent Using Ubuntu Linux Operating System Edgy 6.10<br>> > ><br>> > > Your Ubuntu 'tzdata' package already has the updated timezone
<br>> info.<br>> > ><br>> > > For Redhat, this was taken care of with the following tzdata<br>> updates:<br>> > ><br>> > > tzdata-2005m-1.EL3<br>> (<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-655.html">
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-655.html</a>)<br>> > > tzdata-2005m-1.EL4<br>> (<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-656.html">http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-656.html</a> )<br>> > >
<br>> > > which were issued shortly after the Energy Policy Act of 2005<br>> that<br>> > > included these changes was passed.<br>> > ><br>> > > For Sun:<br>> > ><br>> > >
<br>> <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102178-1">http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102178-1</a><br>> > ><br>> > > I don't have the URL for Debian/Ubuntu offhand though.
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