On 5 Feb 2007 at 18:31, Neal Gittleman wrote: > My guess (and it's only that) is that for most Mac users it won't be > an issue. I have my Mac's clock set to automatically sync to Apple's > clock server. When it trips over into DST, so will my computer. Or > at least I think that's what will happen...
I don't think so. Timer servers have to supply time-zone agnostic time signals, which means they can't include settings for daylight savings and the like, because different regions in different time zones have different rules for when (and if) they enter DST. It *has* to be a local set of rules. The Windows tool for editing time zone settings looks like this when run on Win2K: http://www.dfenton.com/images/TimeZoneEdit.gif You'll see that it starts by defining the offset from Greenwich Mean Time. My understanding is that a time server supplies either GMT or GMT plus an offset and your OS uses its time zone rules to figure out what the local time is. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
