synchronize time

[jdow]

On 2012/03/08 08:47, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> TO NO-REPLY TIM WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR.
>
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:20 +1030, Tim wrote:
>>
>> Cause and effect:  Has CUPS stopped working because UTC is set?  Is
>> the
>> time set wrong, and has CUPS stopped working because the time is set
>> wrong?  Is CUPS faulty?  Has CUPS merely indicated that something else
>> is wrong?
>>
>> Misdiagnosis:  CUPS browsing has stopped working.  Hmm, I'll blame
>> CUPS,
>> and the UTC flag.
>>
>> Correct diagnosis:  CUPS browsing has stopped working.  Changing UTC
>> flag changes behaviour.  Investigate whether I've got the clock set
>> right.  Does setting the time configuration cause CUPS to start
>> working
>> properly again?  Yes, there's nothing wrong with CUPS, the fault was
>> external.
>>
>> Of course, if you don't understand how to properly set the clocks,
>> you're going to paint yourself into a corner with the wrong diagnosis.
>>
>> I've brought up CUPS again, as the original posting used it as the
>> thing
>> that noticed a problem, the original poster continually insisted CUPS
>> had a problem (when it didn't), right up to the last post they
>> responded
>> to me on the list with.
>>
>> Now onto discussing time, as time setting is the problem, CUPS was
>> just
>> the thing that brought the error to people's attention.
>>
>>>   Do you mean UTC time zone setting
>>
>> I'd never seen a UTC "timezone" setting, nor even heard of anyone
>> referring to one.  Likewise with Greenwich Mean Time.  It's not a zone
>> (GMT or UTC), as such, but a reference point.  Only KDE seems to offer
>> it as a choice, and it's a highly illogical choice.  And I'd not
>> mentioned, in any way, UTC as a timezone setting in prior messages.
>>
>>
> I wish you would stop posting this crap:
> 1. My clocks were set correctly, and I know how to set the clocks.
> 2. I never said the problem was a defect with CUPS. I just saw the
> problem with CUPS browsing. -
> 3. If you have never seen a UTC setting choice with time zone setting
> you have not been watching the screens you get when you install a Fedora
> 16 disk. Run system-config-date and choose the time zone option and you
> will see it.
>
> But most of all go away attacking someone else secure behind your email
> no-reply screen.

Don't bother to reply to the nurb. He's more akin to troll than help. Either
that or he is more ignorant than anybody who claims knowledge should be.

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