Question about DST changes in the US

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 14 23:03:17 UTC 2007


Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Ian:
>
>> Just off the cuff: If your system is set to use UTC, local time and
>> changes will be applied when Fedora boots.
>
> NTP-aware systems shouldn't have any problem - correct? (I figure that
> the time servers will change on the new days.)

Not correct.  NTP only provides GMT (otherwise you would have to verify
that the server you at talking to is in your own time zone).  The NTP
client machine is responsible for converting GMT into the local time.

-- 
William Hooper




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