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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
