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Re: Congress


NTP will keep the PC's internal clock sync'd to UTC to
within milliseconds.  However UTC is not local time.
The conversion to local timemust be done on the local
PC.  And for that you need software that "knows" the local
conventions.  Here in the USA our local conventions will
change and so the software will have to change

On UNIX style computers that change would go in the files
that live in /usr/share/zoneinfo this is where the various
local time conventions are kept.  One of the files there
is copied into "/etc/localtime"  So the fix will be pretty
simple.

GS works the same way.  There is a number inside the unit
that is an offset from UTC.  


--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Robert Creager wrote:
> 
> > Morons...
> 
> Agreed... Its a fix for a problem which wouldn't exist if they
> had developed real fixes for energy sources years ago...
> (But you don't want me to go there...  It will raise my
> memories of waiting in gas lines from the 1970s...)
> 
> > From what I've read, the DST change will not actually take place
> > until 2007.  And, if your PC's are still set up to use NTP, then
> there should be
> > no problem (I think).
> 
> I would agree -- if the PC's are sync'ed using NTP/NISTIME, etc. they
> should not have a problem.  The problem will be in what time they
> *say*
> it is...  Its going to require a revision in all of the operating
> systems
> on all of the computers in at least the U.S..  And the legacy systems
> which have
> discontinued upgrades -- for example I still use Unixware (circa
> early '90s)
> and Windows 2000 on some systems -- will *not* be able to report
> correct times.
> 
> > Anyone know about desktop atomic clocks?  If they are off, I'll be
> sending mine
> > to my favorite congressman.
> 
> Related to this I think would be the entire global positioning system
> which is in many automobiles and at least some cell phones.
> 
> I believe that is operating on its own set of time frequency
> standards
> that get translated into "local time".  So in theory all of those
> will
> need "upgrading" as well.
> 
> You don't need to deal with your local congressperson other than to
> have them take the people who proposed this without realizing the
> amount of grief it was going to cause impaled on some very large
> stakes in front of the Washington Monument.
> 
> The plaque in front should read "For being a *really* dumb ass."
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 


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