Re: Could not adjust time

[Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:23:20AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:48:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > hce wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I press the right button of the mouse to the clock time on the panel,
> > > > but there is not adjust time to change the time. What is missing ...
> > > 
> > > Insufficient information to come up with a solution. Is it KDE or gnome or
> > > some other desktop environment? What panel are you running, Which version
> > > of the panel program is it? What is your distribution (stable, testing,
> > > unstable)? If you do not want to be bothered with all this then just use
> > > the date command as Gerard suggested.
> > > 
> >
> > Also, how is an ordinary user supposed to click on anything and change
> > the system time.  Root shouldn't be running X to be able to change the
> > system time.  Unless the thing the user clicks on links to some su
> > system.
>
> In GNOME (wife's machine), right clicking the panel clock gives and
> "Adjust Date & Time" option, which invokes some gnome-sudo hook.

I use gnome on my laptop and I can adjust the time as you say, but in
fact, I have installed the package ntp and after that no need to use
date or other program to get accurate time.

--
Gérard