[ntp:questions] Synchronizing NTP in WAN and LAN

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Mon May 26 05:42:11 UTC 2008


"David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.neither-this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk> writes:

>Unruh wrote:
>[]
>> ntp operates on UTC. It is the job of the system to translate UTC to
>> local time zone information. (Yes, I know Windows is ignorant of such
>> things).


>Unruh,

>Like many OSes, Windows uses UTC internally and translates it to the time 
>zone specified by the user for display.  Start, Control Panel, Date and 
>Time, Time Zone provides the user interface for this, and there are 
>programs like TZedit which allow you to alter the registry settings 
>controlling winter and summer local-to-UTC rules.

>  http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/tzedit.exe

>This is the third time you have provided incorrect information about 
>Windows.

I will try to improve.


>Thanks,
>David 





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