On Friday, October 13, 2006 09:54:19 AM -0400 Danny Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are you talking about? Timezones are local display issues. When you > go from summer time to winter time and visa versa do you see issues? All > applications use UTC which doesn't care about timezones. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. Certain operating systems track local time, rather than UTC, and thus will report incorrect UTC times to applications if the timezone is not correct. Further, users are prone to deciding that the time they see is wrong and "fixing" it by changing the time rather than selecting the correct timezone. It seems not unlikely that a good portion of users will do so in response to the upcoming brokenness ("Oh, I know the rules changed; my computer must have done it wrong, so I'll just set the clock now"). Of course, systems using NTP with a reliable time source should have no problems, as long as the user does not tamper with the clock. -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos