On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:39, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote: > On real life physical machines, time-skews are often a result of a really > poor quality of the clock components in most computers (as already stated) > and ntpd is a very nice thing to have running... > > Just remember that if you're going to use ntpd, make sure the system clock > is set to UTC (and linux is configured to acknowledge that)... That's the > only way clock will keep accurate over daylight saving changes... > Otherwise ntpd will speed up or slow down the system clock until the right > time is reached again. > Not true. The timezone file makes the appropriate 1 hour shifts as a jump for those areas that use DST and the offset is adjusted to keep time in sync. I use ntpd and have my time set to local and I do live where DST is used with no errors in maintaining sync. > /Thomas >
