On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Michael Klinosky wrote: >Ian: >> Just off the cuff: If your system is set to use UTC, local time and >> changes will be applied when Fedora boots. > >NTP-aware systems shouldn't have any problem - correct? (I figure that >the time servers will change on the new days.) > >I checked ntp.org and the timeservers site - didn't mention anything >about the new dates. That is because the time servers all serve up UTC time. It is entirely up to your machine and its proper setup in the locale and uptodate tz files to sort it out. FWIW a DST to ST or vice versa switch does not require a reboot and never has AFAIK. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
