From: mike 

On 11 Mar 2007 17:21:54 -0500, waldo kitty  wrote:

>
>has anyone else had problems with their win98 boxen and the free DST patch
>from intelliadmin.com? i downloaded the patch and ran it on all the win98
>boxes we have here and none of them appeared to make the switch...
>
>but (you knew there was going to be one, right?) this may be complicated by
>all our machines using AboutTime v4.8 to sync with NIST over the internet...
>i either get them to go an hour behind (stay in EST) or they go an hour too
>far forward...
>
>i had to adjust my TZ environment variable on my OS/2 server to get it to
>get right when syncing with NIST but the windows boxes still go off to the
>wrong time when AboutTime is set to sync with the OS/2 server...
>
>i've also an old mandrake (v7.1, IIRC) box that i have to manually update
>the time in the BIOS... it has the correct time and when i tell the windows
>boxes to sync to it, they get the proper time whether the intelliadmin patch
>is installed or not...
>
>however (!) if i tell that mandrake box to sync with NIST, it, too, gets the
>wrong time (stays in EST)... of course, this effects all the boxen set to
>sync with it...
>
>i guess my real question is this... has NIST fallen down on the job?? maybe
>i need to be looking elsewhere on how to fix up the mandrake box as it
>appears to have the same problem the windows boxen do??
>
>my eyes are so crossed from all this mess that i'm looking out thru opposite
>ears :(


I just checked the AboutTime website http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/

It appears that AboutTime uses the NTP system to set its time.  That system
uses and distributes UTC.

Does your mandrake system have a patch^H^H^H^H^H^H an update installed for
the new EDT?  How 'bout your OS/2 system?

NIST seems to be doing OK from what I can see via my NTP sync-ups, and also
from this site:
http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java/java

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