Re: International Time Zone / Servers in EST

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"Joshua C. Clark" <Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hmm so what is the best way to do this? Set my PDC to navy time server
then set the workstations to EST, then servers to UTC? Thank you for your
replies so far!!!!

In general you should NOT set the time on the workstations but let them
pull the time from the Authententicating DC.

DCs pull from the PDC Emulator (there is no "PDC").

Set the PDC accurately, by hand or using a reliable time source.

The time must be the SAME INTERNALLY (in UTC) and should LOOK
right on every machine due to the time zone setting.

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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
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"Herb Martin" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Joshua C. Clark" <Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am running into a problem where I have an Ecomm site for Europe while
the servers are located in the EST / US. I need to point the servers to
UTC time zones while the PC's / Workstations are in the EST time zone.
BOTH servers / work stations are in the same domain with one forest,
anyone have any ideas?

This is perfectly normal. Systems KEEP time internally in UTC while
setting the Time Zone (in Data and Time applet) sets the DISPLAY to
agree with your local time zone.

This also means that non-DCs can pull time from the authenticating DC,
or that DCs can pull from the time master (PDC Emulator) without a
problem,
even if the computers are in different sites with different time zones.

All time is maintained in UTC and shown relative to the local time zone.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)





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