[plug] Daylight Rubbish

hooker at iinet.net.au hooker at iinet.net.au
Thu Nov 23 08:11:44 WST 2006


Quoting Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>:
> Timothy White wrote:
> > The question I have is, what about people syncing with NTP? Do we need
> > new zone files? Or because they sync based on UTC time, we need new
> > zone files.
> 
> You will still need new zone files.  NTP syncs on UTC, which is the only
> sane way to do things.  (Not that UTC is particularly sane anyway -
> hello leap seconds at unpredictable times!)

It's a bit unfair blaming UTC for that! The underlying problem is that reality
is seriously flawed, if it wasn't then we wouldn't need extra seconds here and
there!

Hook



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