Re: [Sheflug] Daylight saving time & rdate

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Andrew Basterfield (list [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hrm.
I do ntpdate -us time.nist.gov 2 or 3 times a day.
and it coped fine with BST.
not sure what to suggest. unless rdate is different, or your timezone is
set funny.

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