* Synchronizing clock to ntp.ubuntulinux.org... ??? [on breezy startup]

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:07, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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>Hello, I have a multi-boot system. Which currently includes both breezy
>and dapper. I just noticed that during a breezy boot my hardware clock is
>being updated...
>
>So I looked around a bit and found the files:
>/etc/default/rcS
>/etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh alias:/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
>/usr/share/doc/util-linux/README.Debian.hwclock.gz
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>Which give me a few ideas about the problem but not a solution...
>
>I do like the fact that the hardware clock is used to initialize the
>system clock. And it's great that the system time is then saved back into
>the hardware clock on shutdown... But I don't want either my hardware
>clock nor my system clock to be automatically updated by any external
> time server... (IE if my hardware clock was set 15 minutes fast when I
> boot, then I expect my system clock to remain 15 minutes fast until I
> manually change it. [I want my PC's time to be the same as my watch
> which {when I can find it} I keep synchronized to my employers
> clock...])
>
I'll concur with the other responders on this problem.  The clock that your 
system is being synchronized to is at worst a secondary standard, and 
quite probably within a millisecond of the atomic clocks at NIST.  If your 
employer insists on a 15 minute fast clock, then set a desk clock to his 
time, and give the rest of the planet some credit for the common sense 
your employer apparently doesn't have a lot of.

>Can anyone suggest a way to prevent kubuntu from messing with MY local
>time anymore???[breezy] And how to ensure that [dapper and higher] never
>does???

If it was a fedora core system, it would be as easy as "chkconfig ntpd off" 
followed by a "service ntpd stop".  End of problem, until you are so far 
off the mail servers reject you as spam or worse.

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Cheers, Gene
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