Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:54 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon
<[email protected]>:
> On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon
> > <[email protected]>:
> >> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Hello Everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp
> >>>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are
> >>>> considered viable. I did see the
> >>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization.
> >>>> Our services are quite time sensitive.
> >>>
> >>> I think the classic method is to use net-misc/ntp
> >>>
> >>> See the extensive article at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/NTP for
> >>> great examples and description.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-)
> >>
> >> I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that Windows does not do ntp, as
> >> Windows does not do time right, doesn't do timezones right and I
> >> strongly suspect can't even do dates right (this latter still unproven)
> >>
> >> Windows time servers need some magic Microsoft thing called ENTP which
> >> is in no way related to the ntp we all know and love
> >>
> > It refuses to adjust time if you have a wrong date. timezone is set in
> > your system
> >
>
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of how Windows has no concept of UTC
> set in the hw clock and a local timezone, and how timezones are odd
> things like Harare/Pretoria instead of the official names like
> SAST GMT+2 as set by the scientific timekeeping community.
>
> How about daylight savings? Can Windows deal with that? Other than by
> just shoving the clock back and forward by an hour on the right days?
>
>
All I can say that XP didn't understand our polititians when they cancelled
"summer time"
daylight saving. btw I saw a good quote in this list. something like "only a
white man can believe
that by tearing a blanket at the bottom and attaching it on the top he will
make tha blanket longer"????
