On 6/22/2011 8:10 PM, Mike Eriksen wrote: > If SNTP works anyway like in Linux/UNIX then the computer takes its > hardware clock as UTC. If the hardware clock is offset to local time > it will be misinterpreted. The poor computer doesn't have any > conception of UTC by itself, it only knows its hardware clock. > > UNIX computers always runs UTC in hardware no matter where on earth > they are placed.
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