Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Thursday 2007-02-15 at 20:40 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> 
>> Doug McGarrett wrote:
> 
>>> Unless you are in a business, where time of messages is important, what 
>>> difference does it make if the time change is out of sync?  I'd fix mine,
>>> if someone would say "YaST this" for 9.3  So somebody tell me,
>>> Yast (timefix).  But i really don't care if it's fixed.  The clock is a few 
>>> minutes off now, who cares if it's off an hour?  Am I missing something?
>> Hmm, ntp service is free, and the software ships with suse. Why would any
>> linux user settle for having the wrong time on their system?
> 
>> In any case, whenever I'm looking at the logs, I find it pretty important to
>> know what time something happened. Not approximately. Exactly.
> 
> The ntp service is not affected by the daylight time saving adjustement, 
> nor by it being correct or incorrect, because ntp uses UTC, which does not 
> vary summer or winter.
> 
> Nor will using an ntp client correct the daylight time saving adjustement 
> when the time comes.

But it would correct the OP's condition, that of his system time being "a few
minutes off". Nothing more was implied.

Joe
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