As I was the one who originally pointed out the issue and was part of the discussion to find the better solution, I abstain from deciding about this FF.
I'd recommend approving it, though. The current status quo is both incomplete (there is no installation of ntpd, the "automatic sync" option is just grayed out) as well as very confusing (the user thinks that the time is handled only manually, while it is actually synced each time an internet connection is established). It would make much more sense if the "Automatic sync" option would be on by default (reflecting the fact that we enable ntpdate by default), and the user can switch it off manually. Personally I don't see an use case for doing that, but according to Matthew there are some users who deliberately keep their local time off by ten minutes and don't want ntp sync. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734894 Title: FFe: DBus time API should control ntpdate, not ntpd -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
