[Gllug] whoah

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:39:19AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:57:27AM +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:18:56AM -0000, will wrote:
> > > Yeah sorry, my home PC is dual booted and I haven't worked out if this is
> > > caused by Linux, windows or hardware, but I have my suspicions :-)
> > > basically, occaisionally the clock slips out a month or two.  Hmmm.
> > 
> > ntp clients on both OS's may help...
> 
> I do not think so, as NTP does not set timezone, only time.  If your
> PC is set in the wrong time zone, then ntp will not fix this.
> 
> However if it is in the correct timezone and just wrongly set, then
> it will.

Big caveat: if the time is wrong by > 20 minutes it assumes that something is
horribly wrong and so doesn't do anything. So get it about right by hand and use
ntpd to keep it right.

-- 
Alain Williams

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