Brian Utterback wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> joe wrote: >>> Hello I am trying to sync the date on my older redhat machines and it >>> seems like daylight savings are not working. I tried replacing the >>> localtime file with the NewYork file but no changes. This is the >>> output from ntpdate >> ntpd has NOTHING, repeat NOTHING, to do with daylight savings time! >> Daylight savings time is a figment of your imagination. It is a common >> hallucination but still a hallucination. >> >> NTP deals ONLY in UTC (formerly known as Greenwich, or GMT). >> >> Local time is calculated by the operating system using the rules for >> your local area. The politicians just love to change the rules every >> year or so, so be sure you have the correct rules for THIS year and the >> place where you live! >> <snip> >> > > Right, what Richard said. Since you said that you tried replacing the > localtime file with the NewYork file, I presume that you are in the > Eastern US timezone. Since you also said that this only effected your > older Red Hat systems, and because this week marks the one week this > year where daylight savings time is still in effect while it was not > in previous years, I will go out on a limb here and suggest that the > time zone files on your systems are out of date and have not been > updated. > > Brian Utterback
And if you are running a chroot jail then you need to do the same for that. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
