Rob wrote: [] > So your standpoint is that every system builder who wants to do > such localization should be on their own, providing their own update > mechanism, and there should not be a universal update mechanism for > timezone updates that is neutral to operating system?
Initially, using something like NTP to distribute the information sounds to have its good points, and some drawbacks. How much information would be involved - how many extra bytes per day would be needed? How often would the data be sent? Having said that, I do feel that it's an OS issue, and not an NTP issue, and if the data is readily available in the correct format, why not just retrieve it with FTP or HTTP? Bu then, how does one ensure that the distribution workload is distributed amongst many servers, rather than having all the world's PCs querying one server? Make every NTP server optionally an HTTP server on port 123? Just some random thoughts... Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
