synchronize time

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 21:11 +1030, Tim wrote: 
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:28 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > My hardware was set to UTC time. My system time was set to local time
> > CDT. But until UTC was checked in the system-config-date GUI, nether
> > cups printer browsing would work nor would ntpd stay running.
> 
> If your hardware is set to UTC, then your time configuration should be
> set to UTC.  The setting is for what the hardware clock is set to, not
> what the software clock is running on.
> 
> When you set what timezone you are in, the computer works out the
> difference between it and UTC, and your software clocks show you your
> local time.
> 
> If the time is wrong, then that could upset some services that might
> treat files from the future as being invalid, or very old files as some
> type of other problem.
> 
The above is exactly what happened to me, which prevented cups browsing
to occur.

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