NTP with Windows Clients

[Garth Meisel]

Roughly Mon January 19 2004 4:25 pm, Garth Meisel said:
> 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.  : )

I guess you could theoretically set Linux to Local time too and that should 
work.  As stupid as that sounds though I've never tried it : )
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