Re: Timezone messup

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From: Andreas Karrer
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 00:00

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In article <342FE054.48002804@deckpoint.ch>, Thomas Kernen wrote:

>Seems to me that this weekend has created a real mess for the
>MET/CET/DST/...etc timezone, anyone else suffering NTP servers/client
>problems (Unix,Windows,Netware and co..)???

NTP (Network Time Protocol) does not deal with time zones or daylight
savings time. It operates on UTC, exclusively. It does corrections for
leap seconds, however; these usually occur around 1-Jan or 30-Jun.

The display format for time strings, or the setting of a local time
clock on badly designed operating systems, is a purely local thing
that has nothing to do with NTP.

 - Andi

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From: karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer)
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Date: 1997/10/01
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