[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Bernd Felsche]

"Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> writes:
>On 27 Nov 2006 at 22:44, Jonathan Young wrote:

>> Also, a question I think I know the answer to... What happens if you > 
>> just  change the clock in the BIOS during a reboot?

>Your clock may be one hour advanced - but with daylight saving our 
>timezone will become GMT +0900 until the end of daylight saving when it 
>reverts to GMT +0800.

>So it's more than just moving the big hand on your clock !

Yep. Most NTP clients will refuse to adjust the clock if it's out by
about an hour.

That means that you system clock will drift without being able to
use a real-time reference.
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