Re: Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-announce(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year
Date: 2007-02-01 21:12:06
Message-ID: 27115.1170364326@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com> writes:
> I've never investigated how NTP servers handle DST changes - that is,

I'm pretty sure that NTP runs strictly in UTC. They're more interested
in leap seconds than DST changes ;-). Your NTP clients will still know
what time it is UTC; whether they can convert that to local time is not
NTP's problem.

regards, tom lane

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