[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[William Kenworthy]

ntp is what you need here ...

ntp can resync systems withing a few seconds to your own master server
(usually pick the gateway) which syncs itself to one or more external
sources when they can be accessed.

BillK

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 01:28 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Arie Hol wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:32:08 +0900
> > From: Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au>
> > Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] Daylight Rubbish
> > 
> >
> > I have been looking through headers of some of the emails that I have
> > been getting today.
> >
> > It seems there are several mail servers in the system that are having
> > problems with  adjusting to daylight saving and the timezone changes.
> >
> > So I sent myself a test message :
> >
> > Sent at 00:23 +0900
> >
> > When I got it back from the mail server - it was timestamped as being
> > sent at :
> >
> > 15:23 -0000.
> >
> > So I guess that there are quite few people having problems with WDST
> >
> > Regards Arie
> >
> 
> Your message above, has the Sent timestamp that is GMT +0900.
> 
> The mailserver timestamp (assuming that it is an ISP mailserver), has 
> nothing to do with the WDT issue.
> 
> Some ISP's deliberately set and keep their servers, at GMT, rather than 
> local time, for some reason peculiar to ISP's, possibly to confuse the 
> public.
> 
> I suggest that it is likely that:
> 1. The ISP mailserver is deliberately set at GMT, and,
> 2. The ISP has botched up its mailserver system time.
> 
> ISP's tend to be good at doing both of these things.
> 
> Oh, and if you decide to look at the full header and find that our 
> mailserver has an amusing timestamp (as in not very accurate), I 
> wouldn't bother to comment about it - with the erratic electricity 
> supply, and the being messed around by the government in this time 
> bastardry (that should be the timestamp acronym - WBT - Western 
> Bastardised Time), it is not worth installing the time bastardry patch 
> and rebooting each of the servers, and then correcting the system time, 
> as the electricity would likely fail, and botch everything up, anyway. 
> Every time we get around to setting all of the clocks here, to the 
> correct time, the electricity tends to fail again, and then we have to 
> do it all again, so I generally just have different timezones in each 
> room, and different system times on each computer.
> 
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
> 
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>   you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>    written by Douglas Adams,
>    published by Pan Books, 1992
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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