Re: [tlug] Erratic Rsync Behavior: Coping with Multi-Booting Effects on Time-keeping

[S Gibson <terryteo@example.com>]

N hours in the spring, and retarded by N
> hours in the fall.
>
> My solution was to always have the hardware clock in GMT (UTC)
> for all operating systems and keep all the operating systems
> from adjusting it seasonally. For Windows, I told it that it was
> in Casablanca Morroco, because the clocks there at not changed
> seasonally, whereas London suffers from summer time.
>
> Remember the utc option for mounting FAT partitions.
>
Would NTP be an option?

Even Windows XP supports it - you can set it from the calendar / time
settings in the control panel. For linux here is a good setup
document:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch24_:_The_NTP_Server

One NTP service I have found reliable is:

ntp.nic.jp

The NTP pool project:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/jp

As long as your internet connection is stable, that should keep
everything in sync (we use it for phone systems where that is
important for things like billing reconciliation).

S