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Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and time changes


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and time changes
  • From: Jason Haar <Jason.Haar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:08:03 +1300

Jason Keltz wrote:
> In your case, the time is always going forward (at least that is what
> you would expect), but in this case, the time went backward!  I'm
> wondering even if ntpdate hadn't made a change at that time whether
> when ntp made an eventual adjustment to the time whether this would
> cause a problem.
>
> I wonder why there is no effect for you...  James?

I can't answer for James, but it *should* actually do any time checks as
UTC - that way there are no daylight saving issues/etc. The local clock
changes forward/backward by an hour, but no change occurs in UTC.

If OpenVPN (internally) uses UTC (or unixtime) there should be no issue

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Jason Haar
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