Zeitserver

To sync your virtual machine with your host, run this on both machines.

ntpdate no.pool.ntp.org

NTP Pool Project is a great little project. Not to mention has some nice clocks.

You only need to care, when your machines are out of time sync, when you are working on time sensitive functionality.

I needed to do this due to:

Having the correct time across all devices on your network can be very important. You don’t want to look at syslog messages that are dated for 12PM 1993 when you know it’s 3 in the afternoon in 2011.

Make your Linux server your networks primary NTP server.

The problem that prompted this blog post is this AmazonSES error:

RequestExpired, it must be within 300secs/of server time

Let’s check my system clock:

date

Sat Aug  6 09:36:38 PDT 2011

Now let’s point my ntp daemon to do different server: pool.ntp.org

sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Now, let’s do date again:

date

Sat Aug  6 09:30:31 PDT 2011

Summary: Use au.pool.ntp.org as the source, instead of using a Server time.

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