[leafnode-list] Re: fetchnews says : "Check your system clock"

[Matthias Andree]

Yvon Thoraval <yvon_thoraval at mac.com> writes:

> Hey all,
>
> presently i'm connecting to four different nntp servers.
>
> fetchnews says, for all of them :
>
> Oct 29 03:46:49 yvon-thoraval fetchnews[25978]: check_date:  
> news.free.fr: clocks of upstream and this computer are more than 10  
> minutes apart. Check your system clock.
>
> i wonder about this 10 mn difference because the intenal clock of my  
> computer is set by a ntp server a 10 mn seems to be a too long  
> difference for the system clock not to react.
>
> what could be the reason for such a discrepency ???
>
> while i'm posting it is 18h17 paris time zone.

I've checked news.free.fr which is OK.

Oct 29 03:46 was 46 mins after the time zone change from UTC+02:00
(CEST) back to UTC+01:00 (CET) -- servers and client are supposed to
talk UTC, so these should be immune to DST hicc-ups.

If the server had a problem with end of DST and was since fixed manually
or your computer didn't switch back to CET (from CEST) properly, this
would explain the issues.

I just checked my log files, no such log lines here.

-- 
Matthias Andree