"Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net> writes:
> Second, perhaps this sort of problem has been solved via the ntp software?
> ntp polls various time servers. Perhaps there is a way to call a timeserver
> that is local to where ever the users are logging in from.
NTP keeps time in UTC. Translation into local time is the
responsibility of the client. So that won't help much.
Translating times between time zones is a hard problem. One thing to
look at is the timezone code that is shipped with free Unices
(BSD/Linux) as it comes with a database of timezones with their
offsets and DST rules.
-Doug