ntpdate working too well question.

[William Park]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:57:14PM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> on Monday, January 31, 2005 9:39 PM
> wrote:
> > All time data are in GMT.  Your /etc/timezone will convert to local
> > time when displaying or when saving to CMOS (if it's set to local
> > time).
> 
> Yes, but HOW does my system know it is in the Eastern Standard time
> zone as opposed to MST (Mountain Standard Time) or Central Time or
> .... Where is the time zone information stored on the Knoppix disk, or

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           34 Nov  8  2003 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern

> where/how does Knoppix get the time zone information from the network?
> There is the problem...

It doesn't.  It gets time in GMT from the NTP server.

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