From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PCbM4-0005WP-LN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:06:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E533E0860 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from einstein.22decembre.eu (einstein.22decembre.eu [88.174.229.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF629E07DD for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from luciole.localnet (box.net.lan [192.168.0.254]) by einstein.22decembre.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B4B1C95 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:55:08 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Guedon?= Organization: http://www.22decembre.eu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:55:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-tuxonice-r6; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <201010310924.11434.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2676382.KOLGuCZa0W"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010311855.10650.stephane@22decembre.eu> X-Archives-Salt: 1a60c994-7e75-44ef-9eeb-c9b79a88236f X-Archives-Hash: a12361279d0aa7346d518a21f5a60579 --nextPart2676382.KOLGuCZa0W Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Sunday 31 October 2010 17:35:56, Jacob Todd a =C3=A9crit : > Why don't you just use openntpd ( or whatever it's called)? ntp service (such as openntpd or regular ntp itself) doesn't lookup at the= =20 time printed on the desktop ! They work in utc time, furnishing a stable ba= se=20 of time. It's the os' job to convert it in local time (and winter/summer=20 time). =46or example, a openntpd launched in a chinese computer (and we know certa= inly=20 that chinese computers have really different times than ours !) would have = the=20 hour of London (because it work in timestamp, which is a way to print utc) ! =2D-=20 St=C3=A9phane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf cl=C3=A9 publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.= asc --nextPart2676382.KOLGuCZa0W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkzNrX4ACgkQuOgaSVDV+yDYVgCgo+bUg5YtRF4eyLr9HdtsmNV1 bcwAoKYFL3SwA3Y9z0+5V5roZcu2zI07 =tD0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2676382.KOLGuCZa0W--