I use the ntp.org ntp servers.  http://www.pool.ntp.org/

I set my /etc/localtime to America/Phoenix, which will do MST without MDT.
How you accomplish this is dependent on your setup, of course.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Steven A. DuChene <
linux-clusters@mindspring.com> wrote:

> I have a few systems here in my home that are either fedora or opensuse
> installs.
> I was setting up ganglia last night to add some monitoring to my home setup
> and discovered I had some issues with clock skew. When I got to looking I
> noticed
> that the timezones were set to MST and most of the systems were off by
> about
> a hour. What is the correct way to setup the timezone correctly for systems
> located
> here in Phoenix where daylight savings time changes do not take place?
>
> Also if you have a small home network what methods do everyone usually use
> to keep clocks in sync across the network? I.E. if you use NTP what
> externally
> reliable NTP server do you use?
> --
> Steven DuChene
>
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