Re: [Sheflug] Daylight saving time & rdate

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

Richard Lowe wrote:

> 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.

Timezone is set up OK, problem is rdate has no concept of timezones.

Wish I had persevered with ntp documentation, I would have saved myself 
an hour or two. I ended up hacking rdate sourcecode - given it a new 
option which uses minutes & seconds from external timeserver and takes 
the hours & date from the local clock. Not much use if you're more than 
30mins out either way but it sorts out slight drift.

thanks

A. Basterfield

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