On 03/10/2013 05:08 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > My watch, telephone and the clocks in the range, microwave and car all > automatically updated themselves last night, but the computers (Fedora > 16 [Xfce] and Xubuntu 12.04) remain stubbornly on standard time. > > In the past on the Fedora computer I used "# service ntpd stop" followed > by "... start," but this time it has no effect. And the Xubuntu > computer just says "ntpd: unrecognized service." After a bit of > sleuthing I discovered that the ntpd service was not installed on the > Xubuntu computer, so I installed it. But the command line still says > "ntpd: unrecognized service." The Xubuntu Time and Date GUI tool also > shows no update option, and the Help files are for a different version > than the one installed. > > Both computers display the clock widget in the Xfce panel, but the > widget has no "update" option. > > The ntpd man page says that the -U option allows setting the update > time interval to a specified number of seconds. I set it to 300 seconds > (five minutes), but half an hour later it still has not updated the > clock. > > Are the npt servers still on standard time? Does anyone else have > computer clocks that are an hour ahead today? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug John,
Kubuntu updated automatically last night. I opened System Settings > Date and Time and checked the box that said, "Set date and time automatically". It shows the Server as: Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org). Hope that helps Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
