On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > The timezone data is simply a set of dates and times to tell the system when > to switch to/from DST. So without the patch, the system will not make any > changes. Ntpd won't change this, as the DST change occurs on the next level. > (i.e. ntp sets the system time, the system will then change that time based > on the DST settings) > > please correct me if I am wrong..
The kernel and ntpd only deal with UTC time. The zoneinfo files deal with conversion from UTC to local time (including DST).
