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t3ch
Asked: 2010-12-14 05:18:21 +0800 CST

System hangs on changing time

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My machine is always showing an hour ahead of the actual time. I am in Texas currently but the time never picks Day light savings. Any time I click on Set Time(Top Right Corner), my system just hangs right there. I have to turn off the machine each time. how do I fix this issue? alt text

This is what happens when I try ntpdate: still 1 hour difference. 

ntpdate time.nist.gov 
13 Dec 21:44:37 ntpdate[3098]: bind() fails: Permission denied 
sudo ntpdate time.nist.gov 
[sudo] password for ubuntu: ntpdate[3237]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset - 12.151112 sec
time

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    Have you tried a console alternative to setting it from the gnome-panel time applet? ntpdate is a favorite of mine. i have it setup in a cron script across several Machines and VM's to ensure my system clock never gets skewed that far off. (once a week is fine by my standards. i find that I only migrate away from Atomic Time a few microseconds a week.)

    However, with that said, give a try with 

     ntpdate time.nist.gov

    and see if it corrects your time issue, without a freeze.

    If your system continues to freeze, see if you cant ssh in from another machine and have a look at /var/log/messages. On a Fedora system at one point i was 2 hours ahead of actual time, when i reset the date, it caused a panic because everything on the system was 2 hours ahead. Threw some ridiculous error about future time and locked up. I powered down the machine for a day and gave it another go in a recovery console without an issue.

    Edit 1: Another thought occured to me to try and change your TimeZone settings. See if that will reconfigure your clock. See the article located at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

    This may be a byproduct of messed up TZ settings.

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