Quoth Shachar Shemesh on Thu, Sep 25, 2003:
NTP gives out the time in UTC/GMT/Zulu/whatever they call it now.
To be precise, timezone is irrelevant in context of NTP.
To be even more precise - *LOCAL* timezone is irrelevant, but NTP must keep the time in SOME timezone so you can relate to it when translating to a convenient timezone by date(1) and friends. That is what UTC (a universal timezone, which happens to be similar (not identical) to GMT) is about.
It's not Debian, actually (just because it makes more sense to
maintain it in one place for all OSes). http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
But do other distributions keep the Israeli timezone up-to-date out of the box? I didn't know about the link above and didn't have to go to Ephraim's TZ page at HUJI CS (the real authority for Israeli UNIX timezone files) since I installed Debian except in order to tell Linux users of other distributions how to keep up with the Israeli TZ, it's just a question that never comes up when you use Debian unstable.
--Amos
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