[VoIP] DST change in Windows

[Steph Kerman]

How would NTP permit the webmailer server to display a time stamp on 
screen and embed in sent messages a timestamp that was offset 
appropriately to the user's time zone?

SK

ikjtel wrote:
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>> One question that came up which I have not gained any insight into is how, when you use Yahoo webmail or Gmail, those webmail servers determine the correct time for the logged-in user
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> The UNIX-server world since the early days has relied
> on the NTP (Network Time Protocol).  The NTP network
> is hierarchically arranged with, as you might expect,
> US Navy atomic clocks at the root (or perhaps cesium
> atomic clocks are considered passe these days)...
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> Customarily the NTP daemons are automatically started
> at system boot time.
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> I would imagine that there must be NTP support for
> Windows as well, but don't use that OS at all, so I
> don't know details about how to get ahold of it, or if
> there are freeware versions of it, etc...
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> Max
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