Time sync

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:33:10AM -0300, Gabriel Menini wrote:

> I have a dual boot system (MS-WindowsXP / Ubunutu GNU/Linux) and live in
> the America/Montevideo Zone.
> 
> But my country entered in Day-Light-Saving a month ago. The Public NTP
> Servers don't know anything about this local political matter, but mu
> Ubuntu system when booting syncs with ntp.ubuntu.org or something like that.

The NTP protocol deals in universal time; your local time is computed
relative to that, based on the time zone configuration on your system.

In other words, don't panic.

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 - mdz