[mythtv-users] Do time servers have the correct time today?

[Fred Firestine]

Each OS has its own patches to deal with the new dates for the time
change. Windows patches should be available automagically through
Windows Update or if you search on microsoft.com. Not sure which Linux
OS you are using, but for Fedora the relevant file is /etc/localtime.
If you run the following command:

[root at mythtv ~]# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59
2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00
2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
[root at mythtv ~]#

These should be the correct values (start and end) for Daylight
Savings Time. So I would say it's not the NTP servers that are wrong,
but rather that your OS isn't ready for the time change.

Fred

On 3/11/07, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today, I checked and found that my myth box still has EST, not EDT.  I use
> ntp, so I didn't expect a problem with this.  My /etc/ntp.conf shows that I
> am using these time servers:
>
> # --- OUR TIMESERVERS -----
> server 80.53.57.158
> server 192.117.105.69
> server 64.5.1.129
>
> My windows machine uses a time server as well ( Rocket.time), and it too is
> wrong.  My primary server in this case is:
>
> time-a.nist.gov.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
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