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Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and time changes


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and time changes
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:02:28 -0700 (MST)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Joachim Banzhaf wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 22:16 schrieb Jim Drash:
> > The original question was about OpenVPN and daylight savings changes. If
> > your hardware clock is set to UTC and your Timezone is set correctly and
> > you are running ntpd, when daylight savings happens nothing to the hardware
> > clock at all. It hasn't changed at all.
> >
> > All of the discussion about how ntpd slews the system time is noeat but
> > moot.
> 
> I dont think so.
> Daylight savings was just mentioned as an example.
> IMHO ntpd and other tools like tickadj are the only way to avoid problems, 
> arising from time jumps.
> And then: I didnt know about tickadj before. So this thread wasn't just moot 
> for me :-)

Just so you know, I am putting together a patch for 2.1 which will 
desensitize OpenVPN to system clock instability.

James


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