From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 15:00:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19091 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 15:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pulp.nildram.co.uk (root@pulp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19084 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by pulp.nildram.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id VAA22180; Fri, 23 May 1997 21:55:27 GMT Received: from i.vaudrey ([10.0.0.5]) by mail.nemko.ltd.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA27030; Fri, 23 May 1997 22:46:39 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705232146.WAA27030@mail.nemko.ltd.uk> From: "Ian Vaudrey" To: Cc: Subject: Re: xntpd using UTC Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 22:45:27 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Atomtime 1.2 or higher supports non-GMT reporting time servers and allows you to set an offset. The current version is 1.4b. - Ian ---------- > From: mdmartin@playtexnet.com > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: xntpd using UTC > Date: 23 May 1997 21:04 > > I am setting up a FreeBSD box (2.1.7.1) as an xntpd server for our local > net. I want people to be able to coordinate their Win95 PC's using > AtomTime95 or some such utility. > > Using AtomTime, I am able to get time service from the FreeBSD box but it > comes back as EST/EDT time when AtomTime is expecting UTC. I tried > setting the default timezone in FreeBSD to UTC but could not find an > option for it. > > I need some way to: > > 1) Set the FreeBSD box so that xntpd returns UTC time, either by setting > UTC as the default time zone or > configuring an offset into xntpd's answers. (Or some other option?) > 2) Get a Win95 utility which can be set to expect EST/EDT time. > > 3) Or some other option? > > Thanks. > > Dan Martin > Playtex Apparel