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Can't update date/time with KDE



I upgraded to KDE 3.2 a few weeks ago and everything seemed fine, but tonight I noticed something odd: I can't set the Date/Time within KDE. When I try to do that, I get an error that seems to indicate the following:

/usr/bin/kcmshell clock --lang en_US

doesn't run... I get a "There was an error loading the module".

(This is the command line that is run with KDE when you choose "Adjust Date/Time" by right-clicking the clock or running it from with the KDE Control App).

I tried it from the command line (as root) and ditto... same error.

The funny thing is that I can use the Gnome Date/Time tools (even run within KDE) to change the date or time, so this seems definitely just a case of something I didn't upgrade properly in KDE.

kcmshell is in the kcontrol package, and I believe (at least according to kpackage) that it is the proper version -- 3.2.1-1

Anyone have any idea on what I did wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks!

William Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:04:46AM +0200, Christian Schnobrich wrote:

IIRC, ntpdate (and ntpd and chrony) will not set your clock if it is off
by too much. I think by default it is 1 hour (3600 sec) for all three of
them.


ntpdate just adjusted my clock which was off by 3602 seconds

7 Apr 18:44:06 ntpdate[10688]: step time server 216.218.254.202 offset 3602.581386 sec

I keep my XP partition image with partimage, and restore it "clean" every couple days. Since the image was made pre-daylight savings time, XP keeps changing the clock.





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