[time-nuts] Time synchronization and the Energy Policy Act of 2005

Rob Kimberley time.bandit at btinternet.com
Thu Oct 19 12:15:10 EDT 2006


Jared,

NTP works on UTC so daylight savings changes etc not applicable.

However, on the question of dates of daylight saving changeover, it would be 
nice if the US got in sync with UK & Europe!

;-(

Rob Kimberley


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jared Morrisen" <jaredmorrisen at gmail.com>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:43 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] Time synchronization and the Energy Policy Act of 2005


> Hello,
>
>
>
> The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established that beginning in 2007, daylight
> saving time is extended one month and begins for most of the United
> Stateson the Second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday of
> November.
>
>
>
> With that, should I be concerned that systems may be affected by the new
> changes in daylight savings time?
>
>
>
> On a non-ntp note, does anyone know how vendors of COTS are handling
> this?  Have
> any certified their software to be compliant?
>
>
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> Any advice, suggestions, best practices on this is much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Jared
>
>
>
> jaredmorrisen at gmail.com
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