To re-phrase and amplify Steve's comments: Let's get back to basic principles. NTP propagates time through a pyramid of servers that are interconnected via a jittery network.
If you feed in UTC at the top of the pyramid, then all the NTP servers tick to the UTC clock. This is generally considered to be the most common scenario. If you use a computer configured with LCL-CLK as the stratum-1 server at the top of the pyramid, then all the NTP servers synchronize to that LCL-CLK. Questions relating to this scenario pop up often in this newsgroup. But there's nothing at all in NTP that prevents you from feeding in your own flavour of time at the top of the pyramid. It's your decision. The only conditions are: firstly, your timesource should run at a rate close to 1 sec/sec; secondly, you must be absolutely certain that your NTP pyramid will never come into contact with other NTP servers that are running UTC (or vice versa; NTP servers that are running UTC should never come into contact with your 'contaminated' time). Statements like "NTP runs UTC - period" require qualification. Paul _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
