[Novalug] Daylight Savings Time

Russell Evans russell-evans@qwest.net
Mon Mar 5 12:22:41 EST 2007


On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:30:09 -0500 (EST)
"Ken Kauffman" <kkauffman@headfog.com> wrote:


> We know that "NET TIME" supports a full 2 second drift (sucky), but
> why MUST we patch the server?  Does it not honor the time sync or
> does it try to auto-adjust for DST even though we're managing time
> through NET TIME?
> 
> I hear people say the "must do", but no one has provided the
> justification behind the "must".

Does the change in DST fall on the M,W,F schedule you have set up? I
am assuming that the change will fall on a Sunday 2:00AM as usual, so
I am also assuming you will be out of sync until Monday on your
servers. 

Thank you
Russell 



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