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On Dec 30, 2004, at 15:58, Federico Galvez-Durand Besnard wrote:

> Your NTPD will never be stable with a wrong localtime setting.

NTP does not care about local time. All values that NTP uses are in 
UTC: local time is a function of the operating system and is not used 
when calculating time values.

Another place to ask questions would be the Usenet group:

comp.protocols.time.ntp