daylight saving time algorithm changing

[Rob McCauley]

I thought daylight savings time in general was a pointless annoyance until
I saw estimates of how much energy it saves.  Yeah, I guess I'll buy that
it'll save energy.  I don't believe that it's the most useful thing we
could do to save energy, but that's a whole 'nother email. :)  Anyway,
it's something.

Does NTP handle daylight savings time?  I was under the impression it just
syncs UTC and leaves the local host to figure out what that looks like in
the local timezone.

Rob

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Rob McCauley, GCFA
Senior IT Analyst
Radiation Oncology
Duke University Medical Center

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jeff The Riffer wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, A. Michael Salim wrote:
> >http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/08/08/daylight.saving.ap/index.html
>
> Does anyone else think this is just a pointless measure? I really doubt it's
> going to save energy.
>
> >Don't know about anyone else on this list, but this will affect just about
> >every piece of equipment for us!  Especially older Linux or UNIX based
> >equipment which will need new glibc and other stuff.
>
> Nothing that a decent NTP infrastructure can't handle.
>
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