[Discussion] New Daylight Savings Time Changes [Was: ECS- Eliminate excess Printers]

[Chuck McKinnis]

David Azarewicz wrote:
> This article is somewhat misleading in that it leaves out much information in 
> order to make the point.  What it article says it true *IF* you use the NTP 
> (RFC-1305).  However it is not true if you use the Daytime Protocol 
> (RFC-867).  This protocol does, in fact, provide daylight time information.  
> (See http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm) I use the Daytime Protocol to set my 
> clock.  This is the protocol used by NISTIME.EXE which I have set to run by 
> cron early every morning.  The ecsclock program can also be set to use this 
> protocol.

With the eClock application included in eCS, RFC 867 is one of the 
protocol choices.  The update for eClock (sort of the equivalent of 
tzdata) is available at www.ecomstation.com.  If you have applied the 
update, the protocol that you pick will work correctly.

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