Re: Synchronize Time with Internet Servers

Jaap Haitsma <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:01:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.system-tools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> El dom, 09-01-2005 a las 22:08 +0100, Jaap Haitsma escribió:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I get a dialog box saying NTP support is not running. What should I run 
>>in order to get this to work? (I'm running Debian sid).
> 
> 
>  You have to install ntp package. (it is suggested by gnome-system-tools
> Debian package, if you are using it)

You actually need ntp-simple installed.

> 
>>What does it do then does it then automatically set the time right 
>>everytime I boot or ....
> 
> 
>  If you want to adjust the time every time you boot (you need to have
> access to a ntp server at that time), you want the ntpdate package.
> 

So if I understand you correctly system-tools only uses the time server 
whenever you launch time-admin??