openntpd UTC problem

[RW]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:42, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> markzero writes:
> > Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work
> > with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into
> > daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'm on UTC, I'm now
> > an hour out (which is causing a few problems, as you can probably
> > guess).
>
> UTC is the same as GMT, within a few seconds.  Neither time zone
> observes any change in the summer months.  If you want a change in
> summer, you might try something like WET (Western European Time), which
> is the same as GMT except that it switches to summer time during the
> summer.  You can use tzsetup to pick a time zone.  Remember also that
> your local real-time clock on your machine should be set to UTC.

Not necessarily, if you run a dual-boot computer with windows you normally set 
your cmos clock to local time and let the less flexible OS handle the 
change-over.

There's a sysinstall menu entry for setting your location, and type of clock, 
which I presumably forgot to set (one of the pitfalls of living in  GMT). I 
had similar problems which all sorted themselves out when I ran sysinstall 
and rebooted.  My time zone is now BST.