ntpdate working too well question.

[Taavi Burns]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:13:43 -0500, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ok, so again the displays I see are in local time. How does the system know
> what "local time" is?

Is it perhaps looking up your IP address in a geographic IP database?  I've
seen these used in some funky traceroute-like programs to map known IP addresses
in "This IP block exists in this geography" to their corresponding
physical places.

I don't know that this is what Knoppix does, but it might explain how
it does its thing.

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