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Re: Time/Date via Gnome clock app (sid)



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On 04/15/07 17:05, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote:
> Hi.
> I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome
> clock application.
> Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time
> has a -5min difference with the real one. I wanted to use the servers
> pool instead but I can't access the menu.
> Every time I try to obtain privileges the password is rejected and I
> typed it in enough times to be sure it's the correct one..
> This happens only with the Time/Date app, everything else works
> perfectly (synaptic, disks, gparted, ..) .
> Has this happened to somebody else?

Just checked.  Using GNOME from Experimental, it happens to me to.  :(

But... it doesn't matter to me since I run ntpdate from cron every
few hours.  Keeps the system time correct even if no one is logged
in.  I suggest you try ntpdate or ntp, which continuously keeps the
clock correct.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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