Reason i put in 6 minutes is to check whether the box time is in sync.
Logs from the firewall shows that the date is still in 2004 and the time 
is 12 hours behind our time..logs from the our syslog server also shows 
the same.

For the external NTP server, i'm using an IP by the way.

On the "checkbox for 'allow WAN to override'"..in which menu is that?

Thanks
-shaun

Braden McGrath wrote:

>>I've point it to an ntp server and set the interval sync for 
>>6 minutes. However when i check the date(from exec.php) - it 
>>is still showing the wrong time and date.
> 
> 
> Well, you should be using a higher interval than 6 minutes, unless
> you're providing the time source.  Generally, anything less than 4 to 8
> hours is considered rude...  I go 23 hours between syncs.  Also, is the
> clock on the box in question THAT bad?
> 
> If you're specifying a hostname in the NTP server box, make sure you
> also have a DNS server setup, or you have the checkbox for "allow WAN to
> override" checked.
> 
> are you using an external time source?  If so, may I suggest trying
> pool.ntp.org, as it is distributed and highly available...
> 
> --Braden
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