The time displayed on the KDE panel is wrong after every restart. It’s 5 hours early. I can’t tell it to use a timeserver, either. Using the “Date/Time” section of “Personal Settings”, it says every timeserver is unreachable. (And it asks me for a password on each attempt, which is ridiculous. Those of us who work alone or in a trusted environment should have an option of turning off all these incessant password demands.)
Are you dual booting with Windows? Windows assumes the internal clock is at local time and Linux assumes it is UTC. Set the clock to Local. Not sure why time server would be unreachable. But that seems like a network problem.
Those passwords are there for protection. With out them you would just be running Windows and be vulnerable to any old virus that came along. Any changers to the system must know the root password and time is a system level process.
No dual booting here. The network is otherwise fine.
Those passwords are there for protection. With out them you would just be running Windows and be vulnerable to any old virus that came along. Any changers to the system must know the root password and time is a system level process.
I have to disagree. I was asked for my password when I opened the date/time widget, then I was asked again for my password when I clicked on the URL of each individual timeserver. That is not necessary and no additional protection comes from it. I’m not sure how allowing me to click on the URL of a timeserver in a fundamental KDE configuration tool without repeatedly entering my password poses any kind of security threat. This, frankly, smacks of unthinking overzealousness.
I might be wrong. But it looks to me as if the time is not being saved to the system clock on shutdown. That’s probably a “systemd” related bug.
After next setting the time correct, run
/sbin/hwclock -w
as root. That should get your CMOS clock set correctly.
On 2012-01-29 15:06, wagerrard wrote:
> I have to disagree. I was asked for my password when I opened the
> date/time widget, then I was asked again for my password when I clicked
> on the URL of each individual timeserver. That is not necessary and no
> additional protection comes from it. I’m not sure how allowing me to
> click on the URL of a timeserver in a fundamental KDE configuration tool
> without repeatedly entering my password poses any kind of security
> threat. This, frankly, smacks of unthinking overzealousness.
It happens that changing time in Linux requires administration privileges,
and this is an intentional feature. If KDE requires you to enter the
password more than once, is a bug you can report at the appropriate place
(which is not here, we are just users helping users).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-01-29 15:36, nrickert wrote:
> After next setting the time correct, run
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> Code:
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> /sbin/hwclock -w
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> as root. That should get your CMOS clock set correctly.
Don’t forget to delete /etc/adjtime after it, and adjust the clock before it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)