[ntp:questions] Synchronizing NTP in WAN and LAN

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Sun May 25 22:55:37 UTC 2008


peerlessdeepaks at gmail.com (Deepak Pandian) writes:

>Hi,

>Thanks .


>> Most OS clocks are set to UTC. Display of this time in the correct time
>> zone is handled by the appropriate userland, or system, utilities. Time
>> zone changes are handled by the tools included with your OS.
>>


>It seems the OS reads the time zone information from a configured
>file.Is there any other protocol which can instruct the clients
>connected to it on timezone.

Yes. There cannot be. ntp is used to synchronize clocks where one is in
Ulan Bator and the other if Ohio-- if they tried to use timezone info, this
could not be done reasonably. Under many operating systems, the system
clock is also in UTC making synchronization easy. Windows, following DOS
decided to use local time, which causes may difficulties. ntp has to kludge
it. 
 

>Regards
>Deepak




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