is there an alternative to SME? something that has similar options to the information bays as that is really why I'm trying to use this OS. Since I have been asked to pay for something that doesn't function I don't believe that I can honestly stay with this software anymore. It would be like going out and getting a tv that doesn't turn on and the person wants you to pay for it even though it can't be fixed. That seems a little off, actually really off in my opinion.
I have donated many funds to Open Source projects, never once have I ever been told to. I have also only ever donated when the software worked. Since the software doesn't work (yet) then I won't donate until it does. You can't request anymore than that. In fact beggars can't be choosers.
Stefano, I appreciate the code that you gave, but considering that is what I had asked for in the beginning, it should have only taken me 1/2 an hour to complete not 1/2 a week. Even at that, no one has posted a solution to the original problem. The TimeZone error still exists, but only on SME not on CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Suse, Mandriva, etc. As I have tried those and not one of them had a problem with the exception of SME.
Other than a few things missing (like port forwarding, mysql, etc) and this timezone error, I think SME could be a great server. It just lacks a working completion.