Unable to set date/time

[terrordrone]

Hello..

I am facing a weird problem.. am on 8.10 Kde 4.2

i am unable to change the date and time in systemsettings -> Date&Time

It gives 3 errors when i click on apply

1) Unable to contact time server : . (the dot is not a typo.. its there in the msg)
2) Can not set date
3) Error setting new time zone

How do i fix this?

Thanks.

[jankushka]

Re: Unable to set date/time

correcting the drift requires administration privileges (security).

ntpdate as regular user

> ntpdate europe.pool.ntp.org
 4 Mar 11:12:35 ntpdate[32420]: bind() fails: Permission denied

ntpdate as root (via sudo)

> sudo ntpdate europe.pool.ntp.org
 4 Mar 11:12:26 ntpdate[32407]: adjust time server 204.9.53.11 offset 0.003630 sec

this is the issue you're seeing, i think, with the graphical front end in system settings.
i (wild) guess this is something that is still not dealt with.
it's there, but it simply doesn't work, yet.
i'm not sure how kubuntu developers want to deal with this.
on way (the old way) of doing this would be to add an entry in the root user's crontab.

now...
ttbmk the clock is adjusted at boot, when network connection is established.
so, if you have a system (e.g. a laptop) that's rebooted often, this is sufficient (i.e. you don't need the system setting thing).
if you have a system that is always on, though, it might be worth scheduling the automatic drift correction.

here's the ubuntu community help on crontab.

hth

[soonchica]

Re: Unable to set date/time

Search is just great

Just upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2 and had the same prob,

sudo ntpdate europe.pool.ntp.org

solved it. Tnx jankushka

[terrordrone]

Re: Unable to set date/time

>sudo ntpdate asia.pool.ntp.org
Error : Name or service not known
 8 Mar 22:09:43 ntpdate[6110]: can't find host asia.pool.ntp.org

 8 Mar 22:09:43 ntpdate[6110]: no servers can be used, exiting

that is the error i am getting..

suppose i want to set the date and time (am/pm format) through command line and the time zone to gmt + 5h 30m , how do i do this ? the man pages of date is overwhelming for me.. i cant make sense of it

[jankushka]

Re: Unable to set date/time

>sudo ntpdate asia.pool.ntp.org
Error : Name or service not known
 8 Mar 22:09:43 ntpdate[6110]: can't find host asia.pool.ntp.org

 8 Mar 22:09:43 ntpdate[6110]: no servers can be used, exiting

that is the error i am getting..

funny.
it works no problems here.
please try with the europe server (and/or with any other you find at www.pool.ntp.org).
see if you get the same error message.
if you do, then please post the result of

nslookup asia.pool.ntp.org

suppose i want to set the date and time (am/pm format) through command line and the time zone to gmt + 5h 30m , how do i do this ? the man pages of date is overwhelming for me.. i cant make sense of it

before going into this, let us check the above.
you must be able to correct the drift with ntpdate using any of the ntp servers at pool.ntp.org.
if you can't, then you have a problem elsewhere that needs to be fixed before.

cheers

[terrordrone]

Re: Unable to set date/time

nslookup asia.pool.ntp.org
Server:     217.1.84.89
Address:    217.1.84.89#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find asia.pool.ntp.org: No answer

i am under a proxy.. its my office machine.. but i have set the proxy everywhere including $HTTP_PROXY

[jankushka]

Re: Unable to set date/time

ttbomk, ntp does not understand proxies.
i guess ntp is out of the question in your case.
if anyone knows more, please step in...

in order to set the clock properly you should:
a) reboot your box
b) enter bios setup
c) set date/time there

then at your system's prompt

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

pick the appropriate continent/city combination.
this will copy your localtime/timezone data into the system's configuration files

in order to set the time on your system, from command line (i shall use 3pm for this example)
you can use the following

sudo date +%T --set "15:00:00"

hth

[terrordrone]

Re: Unable to set date/time

ttbomk, ntp does not understand proxies.
i guess ntp is out of the question in your case.
if anyone knows more, please step in...

in order to set the clock properly you should:
a) reboot your box
b) enter bios setup
c) set date/time there

then at your system's prompt

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

pick the appropriate continent/city combination.
this will copy your localtime/timezone data into the system's configuration files

in order to set the time on your system, from command line (i shall use 3pm for this example)
you can use the following

sudo date +%T --set "15:00:00"

hth

thanks mate.. it works