Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and >> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'cloc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:24:53 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > But what would make more sense (at least in my mind) would be to have > official 'working hours' changes, and adjust those, rather than change > the clocks - ie, in your example, instead of school starting at 9:00am, > it switches to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 18:24, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-26 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and >> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-26 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have helped. But what would make more sens

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 00:11, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: >>> Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon >>> : Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) I notice that no-one has yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 03:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:20:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about > > 11, the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of > > the reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to > > school in the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/04/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here > > either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow > > and in the dark to geet their bef

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: >> Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon >> : >>> Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) >>> >>> I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that Windows does not do ntp, as >>> Windo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here > either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and > in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have > helped. No it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 23:02, the guard wrote: >> 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 timekeep

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread the guard
Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:54 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon : > On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: > > > > > > > > Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon > > : > >> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: > > > > Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon > : >> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate n

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread the guard
Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon : > On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp > >> server, and was wondering which of the ma