<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Apr 7, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">In any case, NTP is not the only thing that adjusts the clock, e.g. the operating system will adjust the time for daylight savings.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Daylight savings time is not a clock adjustment, at least not in the sense this thread has mostly been talking about the word "clock". It doesn't affect the "seconds from epoch" measurement, it affects the way in which the clock is formatted to the user.</div><div><br></div><div>-glyph</div></body></html>