wmrawls

Here is a unique situation for the "Experts". I have setup my AXIM on my work PC and use Lotus notes and all is workign well except for one Bug a Boo. The company I work for is German owned and all of our servers are located in Germany. The have provide us with a Internet server and of course they have us locked down pretty well with a Firewall. We can access pretty much all of the internet with a couple of exceptions.
1. There is no Instant Messageing capabilities at all, (minoe issue to me)
2. Time sync is about 10 minutes off. The set up does not allow the server to sync with local time and all efforts to try and use Atomic clock and similar products hit a stone wall. The Germans are not willing to give an inch on trying to get our system to sync so as you can imagine my Axim is always on the server time and not real time.(or at least the time I percive to be real). This plays havock with my appointments away from work.
Well in the whole sceme of things its not a big deal but one I would like to develope a work around for,.
Ideas?
Suggestions? (Nice ones that is)
Thoughts?
Thanks,