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On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 04:55 +0100, Mat Harris wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I have had a machine running for a little while without many problems, |
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> until I tried to use ntp to keep my clock in sync. |
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> I have got my /etc/localtime and my /etc/conf.d/clock to reflect my GMT |
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> location, yet all timeservers I try to sync to put me an hour behind. I |
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> am in the UK and currently our clocks are forwards, or is it backwards? |
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> Either way I cannot have my machine out 1 hour for half the year. What |
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> should my solution be? |
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probably because while you are in a "GMT location", strictly speaking |
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you are not on GMT time. GMT time does not include daylight savings, |
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AFAIK, otherwise everyone who referenced GMT would have to alter their |
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time according to whether both GMT and their timezone was on daylight |
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savings at that particular time - a big mess, especially for the |
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Southern Hemisphere, or places like where I live, that don't use DST. |
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You need to set /etc/conf.d/clock to GMT (if your bios keeps time in GMT |
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- up to you) and set /etc/localtime to London, or whatever. I think... |
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I get confused sometimes :) |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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