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

Lord High Executioner mt298wg02 at sneakemail.com.invalid
Mon Jun 22 13:14:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:00:06 +0000, jimp wrote:

> David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>> jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> What about all the systems that don't use Olson?
>>> 
>>> 
>> I'm only aware of one that doesn't require the system administrator to
>> manually configure for any zone that that doesn't match the (historic)
>> US rules, and that is the Windows NT family.
> 
> HP-UX to name just one mainstream OS doesn't use Olson.

And AIX.

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