system clock is too slow
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Jul 28 13:15:46 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:39, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
> On real life physical machines, time-skews are often a result of a really
> poor quality of the clock components in most computers (as already stated)
> and ntpd is a very nice thing to have running...
>
> Just remember that if you're going to use ntpd, make sure the system clock
> is set to UTC (and linux is configured to acknowledge that)... That's the
> only way clock will keep accurate over daylight saving changes...
> Otherwise ntpd will speed up or slow down the system clock until the right
> time is reached again.
>
Not true.
The timezone file makes the appropriate 1 hour shifts as a jump for
those areas that use DST and the offset is adjusted to keep time in
sync.
I use ntpd and have my time set to local and I do live where DST is used
with no errors in maintaining sync.
> /Thomas
>
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