Re: [MiNT] Peter's emails [was Re: double-click crash]

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:59:47 , Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure what's wrong but I always seem to get your emails delayed
> > about 4 hours. Looking at the headers of this message it was created on
> > your machine at 11:13 today, but only arrived at it's first hop at
> > smtp.freeola.net at 13:46. Is there a date problem on your machine ? or
> > do you only connect periodically and upload mails then ??
>
> It looks like Peter's router (the first hop) has a broken clock, and
> Peter's host has a wrong time zone.  If you compare the date headers
> (ignoring its wrong time zone) with the date from the second hop they
> are at most seconds apart.  But the date of the first hop is always way
> off.
>
> Andreas.
>
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AFAIK my router doesn't have a clock.

My mint time is set as:

# Timezone (mandatory)
setenv TZ GMT-0BST,3.5.0,10.5.0
exec    u:\sbin\tzinit -l

somewhere it sets the clock from a remote server using
ntpdate or something like that.


Regards,

Peter