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johnhurley

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My new macbook pro knows time correctly at home ( using one of the nist servers ).

At work I have a different location setup and proxies configured ( http and https and ftp I think ) and everything seems to work. I can check for updates, use safari, connect to app store and iTunes etc. But the time is off ... and cannot seem to sync.

There are several other protocols I guess I can configure a proxy for. Does anyone know which of them the time sync uses?

Thanks John
 
My new macbook pro knows time correctly at home ( using one of the nist servers ).

At work I have a different location setup and proxies configured ( http and https and ftp I think ) and everything seems to work. I can check for updates, use safari, connect to app store and iTunes etc. But the time is off ... and cannot seem to sync.

There are several other protocols I guess I can configure a proxy for. Does anyone know which of them the time sync uses?

Thanks John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

UDP on port number 123, but you can change the time server apple uses in the Date & time preferences.

Using the http proxy should work fine.
Check your system log for errors as well.
 

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UDP on port number 123, but you can change the time server apple uses in the Date & time preferences.

Using the http proxy should work fine.
Check your system log for errors as well.

Well the http proxy was already configured and it was not synching.

I went ahead and configured all the available remaining proxy's listed ( SOCKS, Streaming, Gopher ) ... and now it is working.

Prior to that change I just had http, https, and ftp proxy info set.

It would be nice if you just configured one of them ( http ) and then clicked and said that all the rest of them use that same information.

But anyway it is working now ... thanks.
 
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