NTP with Windows Clients

[Garth Meisel]

Roughly Mon January 19 2004 4:21 pm, Kareem Shehata said:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:19, Garth Meisel wrote:
> > Maybe it's because Windoze can't do GMT?  <I was bored>
>
> While something that silly wouldn't suprise me (it is Windows after
> all), it synchronizes to time.nist.gov and time.nrc.ca just fine.  So
> why can't it synch to the NTP server sitting beside it?
>
I know it's silly.  I've not touched a Windoze system in 4 years now 
thankfully but if memory serves me correctly, it's because Linux will 
synchronize to GMT and Windoze only synchronizes with LOCAL time and the two 
are not the same therefore causes a big data collision.  : )
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