On Fri, 30 May 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:10:19 GMT >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Asrai khn) writes: >> >>> Note: please reply to me direct as i am not subscribe to mailing list. >> >> It is not a mailing list, it is a news group. Keep coming back for >> information. > > No. It is both a mailing list and a news group. A great many of us have > abandoned usenet and read this via the mail list. I assume Asrai sent > his question to the mail list. You read it via the news group. Since you > ignored his request to copy him, he will never see your response of:
Ah, ok. But then he should subscribe to the mailing list while he is asking questions of the list or the newgroup. Ie, expecting people to privately email him answers to questions which he asks in public is not a good idea. It deprives others of the benefit of the answers ( or of the benefit of having the mistakes in the answers pointed out by other more knowledgeable people.) > >> 1. Is it possible to adjust only the ntp server for DST thing and let all >> other machines automatically get the new time from ntp server? > > No. NTP knows nothing about DST. It operates in UTC. > > > >> 1.1. If not do I have to adjust all machine clocks manually? > > > What operating system? Just to amplify, Under Linux, BSD and others, the crucial file in something called tzdata. ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.gz which can be downloaded from the web. In that file are listed all the known time regions together with their DST rules. They update it about 10 times a year, every time they become aware of some new time zone information from somewhere in the world. Compiling it with zic, installing it, and pointing your system to the appropriate file is all you need. That will handle all changes like DST automatically with no intervention needed. Under Windows, I do not believe any such structure exists, and you have to persuade Microsoft to publish a patch for your system which contains the info. But I may be wrong. Under Mac, I think that they also use the tzdata database to handle time, but again I could be wrong. Thus his telling us what OS he uses would enable more helpful answers to be given. > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
