On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:16:27AM +1000, David wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:33:40AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:26:22 +1000 > > Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This gets weirder. > > > > > > My original comments were made against my production systems which > > > are running Fedora Core 4. My test environment running Fedora Core 5 > > > gets it right. > > > > My Ubuntu Breezy has it right. > > My breezy has it wrong :( I didn't alter the standard install. If I recall > it points at ubuntu's own timeserver?
Have you installed the libc6 update that came out very recently? It's the one with the updated tzdata. > I've got a local network timeserver pointing at ntp.syd.connect.com.au > which seems to be getting the wrong time. > > Is there a timeserver that is giving the right time? As mentioned, ntp servers run in UTC, and then the timezone is applied against that on the local system. Otherwise you'd have massive confusion if you were using an ntp server in a different timezone to your own. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
