[Sheflug] Daylight saving time & rdate

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hmmm... been having some problems with time this week.

All my linux boxes keep GMT in the CMOS clocks and do a "clock -su" on 
boot - this sets the unix time 1 hour infront of the CMOS time in the 
summer. Problem being the gateway syncs it's time with a UK timeserver 
every time it connects to the net with rdate - the timeserver returns 
GMT not BST so I loose an hour on the unix clock, and then it sets the 
CMOS clock another hour behind so my CMOS clock keeps GMT -1 hour. As 
all the other machines on the LAN sync off the gateway then chaos 
ensues. Apart from changing to a French timeserver in the summer how do 
I get the timezones sorted (short of rewriting rdate with an option to 
ignore the hour part of the returned time)? Been looking through xntp 
documentation but it all seems soooo much more complicated than what I need.

thanks

A. Basterfield

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