One solution to the iMessage / facetime login / network connection issue

I am one of many who posted, read, tried many of the solutions with an issue of iMessages telling me to check my server connection. Buried somewhere on this site, one person posted a solution, and it worked for me, along with the person who posted the problem. Maybe this will save someone else with a similar issue hours of frustration, reading links that tell me how to build a clock, when all I wanted was the time.
On Ipad, go to settings > general > date & time.
Slide the button to set automatically to "on"
Under the time zone, select a city in your zone.
At this point, my pad went into "think" mode, and stayed there.
It doesn't matter. (12 hours later, it still hasn't selected the time zone).
I then shutdown and restarted my pad, and iMessage, and Facetime worked just like it used to.
Hope this saves someone from the "link jungle" that I found myself in.

Hi,
This may be due to a lack of a serial number showing in System Information > Hardware.
This is supposed to show the Serial Number which is stored on the main Logic Board.
If the machine has been Refurbed or Repaired and the board replaced then the Serial Number id "flashed" back to the new board.
Some people are discovering that this has not been done and FaceTime and iMessages "registrations" on the Mac are not working as it uses this info somehow.
10:38 PM Saturday; December 1, 2012
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