Building a strat1/2 time server

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Feb 28 04:36:06 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:26 -0500, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> So is there no way I can say have a windows box connect to this server
> and pull its time successfully even though the ntp server is an hour
> behind, or say we roll the date forward to March 11, 2007? You can see
> where we are going with this as far as testing is concerned, they want
> to be absolutely sure they have thought of everything - and asked me
> to build this.

But the NTP server serves out GMT/UTC/UCT (whatever you call it, these
days), *it* doesn't change.  Daylight savings, or not, your NTP server
clocks out the same time.  It's the clients making use of it that change
their own behavior regarding DST.  Whether that be the machine itself
(which works its own local time out, but the NTP server doesn't make use
of that), or external clients.

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