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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!news.bu.edu!att-in!att!allegra!hgs From: hgs@allegra.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne) Subject: ntp, time, timezones Message-ID: <1994Jan7.160541.17677@allegra.att.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 16:05:41 GMT Lines: 22 First, I now have (what appears to be) a working copy of xntp, version 3 up on netbsd 0.9. (The version on agate is ancient and does not support NTPv3, the current spec.) Indications of interest are welcome. In testing, I discovered that ctime() translates the second count differently on my Sun (SunOS 4.1.1) and NetBSD, with an offset of 14 seconds, apparently. E.g. On NetBSD: gettimeofday() time() ctime() 757958070.532501 757958070 Fri Jan 7 15:54:16 1994 On Sun: 757958070.501251 757958070 Fri Jan 7 10:54:30 1994 This is rather strange, naturally. Anything to do with leap seconds? Finally, is there any way to set the timezone without recompiling the kernel? (zic(8) doesn't seem to exist except as a man page). Thank you. Henning Schulzrinne