[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > >
NTP "BELIEVES" that the time it is getting is UTC. If you feed it Eastern Slobovia Daylight Savings Time, that's what you will get. This is generally a REALLY BAD IDEA but someone might want to do it for reasons I have trouble imagining. If you do it, be careful to NEVER connect your network to a public network. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
