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Stuart Longland wrote:
> Actually, we had a problem that our linux box kept setting itself 10
> hours ahead of time, and the webserver suffered similar problems, so
> after many attempts at correcting the time, I got fed up and went to
> using NTP to sync the computers.

Sounds like you told linux that the hardware clock was storing time in 
GMT. Since Brisbane is GMT+1000, that would make a lot of sense that 
it'd skip 10 hours ahead of what you set the hardware clock to. Always 
something to watch out for when installing linux.

Sandra.
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