System time running fast

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/24/2010 10:23 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2010 07:00 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 23 September 2010 06:15 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>>>       
>>>>    It continually reports the
>>>> time incorrectly and gets further off(fast) as time goes by.
>>>>         
>>> Are you dual booting with Windows? If yes that might be the reason.
>>>       
>> I have recently installed Fedora 13 by shrinking my ubuntu partition.
>> On the start due to some error( on my part) grub only choosing fedora
>> to boot the system. After the correction on grub config I can now dual
>> boot Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 9.04 - since then the time shown on Fedora
>> Desktop is always incorrect. It's started happening only after the
>> dual boot option is available to me. Solution required - thanks in
>> advance.
>>     
> Usually this happens when you dual boot with windows, but I guess it can 
> happen with Ubuntu too.
>
> You should check whether Ubuntu is configured to update the hardware 
> clock to local time or not. If it is, then turn it _off_. You need to 
> set both Ubuntu and Fedora to keep the hardware clock synchronised with 
> UTC and display the time adjusted for your time zone.
>
> To achieve this in Fedora (and probably will work for Ubuntu too) is to 
> open up system-config-date and under the "Time" tab check the box saying 
> "System clock uses UTC". I would also recommend turning ntpd on (a 
> check-box on "Date and Time" tab)
>
> Hope this will resolve the issue for you. GL.
>
>   
First, if the OP is dual booting with Windows, then

system-config-date and under the "Time" tab UNCHECK the box saying 
"System clock uses UTC". I would also recommend turning ntpd on (a 
check-box on "Date and Time" tab) System/Administration/Date and Time from the menu.

Windows always uses local time. Unix was designed to use UTC, but Linux can be either because it is frequently dual booted. You can also set up NTP, by going to the same screen under the date and time tab, and syncronize date and time over Internet. It is best to choose time servers close to you, but you can also use the ones that are preset in fedora. 


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