[Info-vax] DTSS to NTP

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hccu3s$scl$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
> I'm working with a site that has software that doesn't tolerate time
> changes well.  Before this summer, they'd run with parameter
> AUTO_DLIGHT_SAV = 0, and when DST started or ended, they'd change the time
> manually when convenient for them and restart the software.  Some time
> over the summer they started using NTP to synch with an external source.
> I see that NTP itself shouldn't mess them up, but I foresee them changing
> the time and then having NTP try to set the time back.  They'll have to
> stop NTP, change the time, change the time zone for NTP and restart it,
> from what I see.  Did I miss anything?

   You should be able to setup NTP such that it doesn't do daylight
   savings time.  But in order to do daylight savings time on your own
   schedule you'll have to modify NTP's settings to convince it to give
   you what you want when you want it.