ha I think the ntpdate command found the problem! here's the result...
oztivo ntpdate $revision: 1.21 $
Our postcode is 02127. Found matching timezone Pacific/Aucklan
Offset 0 for timezone GMT, daylight saving is 0
connecting to time server 210.48.107.133
setting the local time to Thu Apr 17 07:37:22 2008
seems like my friend might havbe missed the d off the end of Pacific/Auckland in his /etc/postcodezones file
CORRECTION... it appears that it's important to put a newline character at the end of the line you enter in /etc/postcodezones
Not having the newline appears to make ntpdate ignore the last character of the line. Presumably because it's assuming the last character in the line is a newline. Hence it's ignoring the d... I've tested this out on my Philips and get the same issue if I don't have a newline. I'm sure this isn't news on here but I'll add it to the Thomson HowTo if I ever get round to writing it!
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