[ntp:questions] Can or should the NTP protocol eventually serve timezone data?

Rob nomail at example.com
Wed Jun 17 21:26:36 UTC 2009


David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>> You don't need to extend NTP to do this.  Just put the file with the 
>> timezone data on an FTP server and tell us where it is.  Maybe a few 
>
> Already done.

Is that FTP server robust enough to allow for e.g. all installations
of a popular operating system to download it automatically from there?

I would think that a more distributed approach is better.




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