System time running fast

[Tanmoy Chatterjee]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> 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".
THANK YOU VERY MUCH Suvayu. You have solved my problem. Sorry for
being late to reply. Actually I am waiting to see whether the changes
are permanent or not.
> I would also recommend turning ntpd on (a
> check-box on "Date and Time" tab)
I have not done this though. Is it necessary?
>
> Hope this will resolve the issue for you. GL.
One thing I want to share with you and other users here - I have also
been a subscriber to another user's mailing list - though I am not
here for long - still the queries I have posted here got quick and
perfect solution than elsewhere - it seems to me the users here are
more knowledgeable than elsewhere.

Thanks a lot-

with regards
tanmoy
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