[mythtv-users] Do time servers have the correct time today?

[Larry K]

Yeah, I just realized that.  Thanks!

On 3/11/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Larry K wrote:
>
> Today, I checked and found that my myth box still has EST, not EDT.  I use
> ntp, so I didn't expect a problem with this.  My /etc/ntp.conf shows that I
> am using these time servers:
>
> # --- OUR TIMESERVERS -----
> server 80.53.57.158
> server 192.117.105.69
> server 64.5.1.129
>
> My windows machine uses a time server as well ( Rocket.time), and it too
> is wrong.  My primary server in this case is:
>
> time-a.nist.gov.
>
> This has nothing to do with your time servers, it has to do with your
> timezone data.
>
> For Linux you have to have the correct tzdata,  the exact method of
> updating depends on your distro.
>
> For Windows recent updates are supposed to have corrected that.
>
> But the timeserver just gives you UCT, the correction to local zones is
> done by your OS.
>
> Some BIOS clocks try and automatically adjust for DST, they will almost
> certainly be wrong today but once the OS is up it should correct that.
>
>
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