fedora time bug

Jason Dravet dravet at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 5 18:51:42 UTC 2006


Eric wrote:
>You said your time is set 5 hours into the future, it means your time is 
>set at UTC. It is my understanding that the NTP sometimes doesn't sync the 
>time if your PC time is too far apart from real time (i.e. date wrong 
>and/or time hours apart) I do the following steps to get it right:
>1. disable NTP first
>2. select the correct TimeZone, disable UTC
>3. set it to correct time and date
>4. enable NTP
>5. set advanced options
>    [x] synchronize system to clock before starting service
>    NOTE: this one is important. I know I get the same problem you have 
>when I forget to set this one.
>
>Following the EXACT steps are IMPORTANT here.

I followed your instructions to the letter.  The problem is when I adjust 
date and time, the time is correct there.  The time on the panel is 5 hours 
into the future.  When I run date from the terminal the time is correct.

Thanks,
Jason





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