Australian Time change

[Jagadesh_2]

Hi Admins,

We are supporting HPUX 11.11 - Australian & UK servers. NTP Master server is a UK server. Australian servers uses the NTP server for time change.

Due to Australia hosting the Commonwealth Games Daylight Savings has been extended
from the Sunday 26th March to Sunday 2nd April this year.


I am planning to add the entries in the NTP server under EST-10EDT

EST-10EDT
0 3 25-31 10 1971-1999 0 EDT#VIC-11
0 3 27 8 2000 0-6 EDT#VIC-11
0 3 25-31 10 2001-2038 0 EDT#VIC-11
0 1 27 2 1972 0-6 EST-10
0 1 1-7 3 1973-1985 0 EST-10
0 1 15-21 3 1986 0 EST-10
0 1 1-7 3 1987-1994 0 EST-10
0 2 25-31 3 1995-2005 0 EST-10
0 2 1-7 4 2006 0 EST-10
0 2 25-31 3 2008-2038 0 EST-10

But the confusion is UK NTP server clock will go 1 hour back on 26th march.

Expecting your valuable suggessions in this.

[Peter Godron]

Jagadesh,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=990925 mentions a HP patch for this specific situation.
Not sure what happened to it.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1005991 covers the same problem

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If your concern is that *your* server is an NTP source for others, then the answer is that it doesn't matter.

NTP works in epoch time --- ever marching forward seconds.

What *you* perceive as the correct local time is merely an offset (+/-) of the epoch time defined by the rules in '/usr/lib/tztab'.

You can apply your patch without alarm.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Godron]

Jagadesh,
PHCO_34266 patch has been released by HP.