[Evolution] Evolution and time handling

[melissa davis <melissad speakeasy net>]

Hi, Frank,

I had a similar difficulty with KDE.  Here are some things you can try:
    - set the hardware time to UTC and tell KDE the hardware clock is
UTC.  That worked on a couple of my systems.

    - best thing is in a terminal, su to root, and issue %hostname%#
/usr/sbin/netdate "timeserver".  For time server, list the DNS name or
IP address of a Stratum clock close to you.  Stratum One servers that
are open to boot time Stratum One hardware sets for Linux include:  
192.4.41.40 (tic.navy.mil - but use the IP address), 192.5.41.41
(tock.navy.mil), and Tick.gpsclock.com (use the DNS name because the IP
addresses change.

     - then set up xntp with the files in /etc (hostname# touch
/etc/ntp.conf /etc.ntp.keys /etc/ntp.drift /var/log/ntp).  Locate two or
three nearby Stratum 2 servers and do the very simple configurations. 
the documentation at the following URL will give you a hand on it. 
Enable xntp in your start-ups (Conrol Center|Run Level) and have it
start at init 3 and 5.  http://www.ntp-zeit.de/index_en.htm.  It's
really a snap and will actually discipline your hardware clock with
small traffic in the background when your are on-line.

Be a good netizen and don't use a Stratum One server.  They discipline
Stratum Two Servers.  You don't need to be that accurate, at least not
on a laptop function.  a Stratum 2 will give you 1*10^-10 variance, good
enough for an OC-48 link.

Now if the good folk at Evolution would let us have a header file as
well as a signature, we could tell the MicroScheiss users that we are on
GMT and not to spam us with emails that our emails are arriving five
hours before they are sent (because we are GMT).

if you have any trouble, I will send you copies of my config files.

melissa