Re: time sync? time servers give wrong time

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ken Williams writes:
How do I fix this? Is this a setting that netdate needs to accurately
specify EST? or are all these time servers screwed?

Netdate uses the obsolescent RFC868 "time" protocol which sends the time in
seconds the start of 1900 GMT. Thus it knows nothing about DST. Your best
bet is to use something more modern such as Ntpdate.

ntpdate also knows nothing about DST.
Unix time is all in UTC.
(Which of course you know).



where on slackware 10 can I specify EST in my /etc. Everything was fine
until recently (sunday march 9 I think).

Slackware 10 is rather old, I believe. You probably need to update your
zoneinfo. The problem is not with Netdate. The problem is that your
system does not know that we switch to DST three weeks earlier than we used
to.
--
John Hasler
john@xxxxxxxxxx
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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