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

Todd Glassey CISM CIFI tglassey at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 19 19:36:40 UTC 2009


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Rod Dorman wrote:
>   
>> In article <qu-dnfrtdPK6Z6fXnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d at giganews.com>,
>> Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>     
>>>  ...
>>> Kludging local timezone conversions into the NTP protocol somehow would 
>>> be a nightmare if you could persuade anyone to do it!  24 or more 
>>> timezones  ...
>>>       
>> Don't forget that there are places like Newfoundland that don't have a
>> nice round number of hours offset.
>>
>>     
>
> That's one of the possibilities that led me to say "24 or more".  I 
> don't believe that it's the only one!
>   
West Virginia and Ohio also do this occaisionally
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