I created a soft link in the wp-admin directory to my php.ini file. That solved my problem. (The uploader page reads ’16M’ right now.) WordPress v3.5
cd wp-admin
ln -s /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini php.ini
Note that the location of the actual php.ini will vary with the Linux distro.
Ah-ha! You were right on target. I installed ntpd on the server and then everything got resolved.
