Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?
On 2009-03-30_18:57:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-03-30 17:47, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> On 2009-03-30_16:21:39, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>>> On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>> If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is most
>>>>> likely UTC.
>>>> On a Linux computer, the internal clock is almost certainly *NOT* UTC,
>>>> rather it is "seconds since Unix Epoch", often shortened to "seconds
>>>> since Epoch", or just "Unix time".
>>> The BIOS does not have a concept of time zone. It only knows "seconds
>>> since it's epoch". And that's (I think) translated to a struct or
>>> string
>>
>> True, seconds since it's epoch, but it's epoch is not Unix Epoch, and
>> all sorts of uncertainties and confusions arise because nobody knows
>> the "DOS epoch" of someone else's computer. What a mess! At least with
>> Unix there is only one epoch to argue about, rather than millions and
>> millions in all the Windows computers in the world.
>>
>> The implementation of time keeping in Debian/GNU/Linux is actually
>
> It's more Unix/Posix and RFC 1305.
>
> Whoever decided on an epoch of 1970-01-01 00:00:00 was extraordinarily
> shortsighted, though. The OpenVMS epoch gives much more flexibility...
I'm not familiar with the OpenVMS epoch, but I don't believe
flexibility in a definition of a epoch can make it better. Where can I
read a discussion of the value of making a epoch flexible? And what on
earth does it mean to make an epoch flexible?
>
> [snip]
>>
>> Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last
>> shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an
>> hour' in switching from standard to summer time. It is conventional
>> wording, it is manifestly untrue.
>
> Besides, as Tom Furie mentioned losing an hour of sleep, what's really
> happening is that you are shifting/rotating your UTC offset by 1 hour.
Yes, Shifting/rotating is what I call changing the setting on your
clock. Using words that suggest a break in the fabric of time vastly
over state the powers of Man.
>
>> But if people say it often enough,
>> it becomes something that is used in syllogisms as if it were a fact.
>
> Most people are very sloppy at thinking logically. [troll]Can women even
> do it?[/troll]
Progress! in coming to see my point. You can say things about women that
you cannot yet admit about yourself. :-)
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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