Per Jessen said the following on 07/19/2011 02:14 AM:
Can I be sure ntp knows that my 2 hour time difference on the hardware clock is correct and not an error? Remember that the hardware clock is UTC time. And we do not all live in that timezone.
ntp doesn't care about timezones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
"It provides Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). No information about time zones or daylight saving time is transmitted; this information is outside its scope and must be obtained separately."
If you think about it for a moment that *HAS* to be the case. Any particular reference site can be accessed from anywhere in the world - that is from any time zone. The 'seperately' in teh case of Linux comes from _either_ consulting the TZ environment variable _or_ consulting /etc/timezone -- I clicked my heels together three times and wished I was in Cuba, but the reality fairy smacked me in the head and flew away laughing! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org