Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

[Alan McKinnon]

On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote:
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> Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
>> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis <symack@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello Everyone,
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>>>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp
>>>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are
>>>> considered viable. I did see the
>>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization.
>>>> Our services are quite time sensitive.
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>>> I think the classic method is to use net-misc/ntp
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>>> See the extensive article at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/NTP for
>>> great examples and description.
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>> Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-)
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>> I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that Windows does not do ntp, as
>> Windows does not do time right, doesn't do timezones right and I
>> strongly suspect can't even do dates right (this latter still unproven)
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>> Windows time servers need some magic Microsoft thing called ENTP which
>> is in no way related to the ntp we all know and love
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> It refuses to adjust time if you have a wrong date.   timezone is set in your system
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I was thinking more along the lines of how Windows has no concept of UTC
set in the hw clock and a local timezone, and how timezones are odd
things like Harare/Pretoria instead of the official names like
SAST GMT+2 as set by the scientific timekeeping community.

How about daylight savings? Can Windows deal with that? Other than by
just shoving the clock back and forward by an hour on the right days?


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com