The centos 4.x we are using as platform for the VMWare VMs (yes, I know there is version 5, but we need to be compliant with RHEL 4.x because of the ATG requirements) installs by default the NTP client. Here is sequence of steps that needs to be performed to enable automatic synchronization of the clocks. make sure the DNS works cat /etc/resolv.conf sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf and check that nameservers point to something meaningfull, e.

[tkuser@jci-app ~]$ date Sat Jan 3 11:28:12 EST 2009 [tkuser@jci-app ~]$ sudo date -s "13:45" Password: Sat Jan 3 13:45:00 EST 2009 [tkuser@jci-app ~]$ date Sat Jan 3 13:45:04 EST 2009

Just tried out to switch the iPhone to automatic Date and Time setting with 3G on. The time jumped from 11:31 to 11:30 (my iPhone was about 1 minute too fast) and STAYED THERE. This could mean that the issue is finally fixed. Can anybody confirm that ?

Two screencasts, about 80 and 40 minutes long are available at: http://excess.org/article/2008/07/ogre-git-tutorial/ Courtesy by fellow Ottawan Bert Trojanowski. Really nice job of providing deep enough technical understanding with good illustrative examples. If you want to get into distributed version control (which is IMHO way to go), check this out.

Since about Sunday, Dec 7th (I remember exactly because I noticed it when leaving the regular ByMUG meeting at Patty Bolands) my iPhone for no particular reason decided to translocate itself to GMT+1 time zone. It was not visible immediately, only emails received at 16:20 were shown as received 6 hour in the future. All this without any changes or installing anything on my end ... The Clock application showed what was wrong (this snapshot was taken on Sunday, 16:02 Ottawa time):