How to fix time?

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/6/16 D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com>:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 06/16/2008 09:10 AM :
>
>> Now that I'm back, I notice that my clock is wrong... and the stupid thing
>> is that I can't figure out how to force it to use NTP (which is what it was
>> using before the power cut; I have no idea why it's no longer using it).
>>
>
> Hmmm... actually, it's worse than that. I can't change the time at all :-(
>
> Any option to do so seems to be greyed out.
>
>  Doc
>

Hi!

I would use our old friend the console to eliminate errors in the GUI
tools. To set the system date and time manually you can use the date
command or to sync with an ntp server the ntpdate command. Try to
start the ntp server from an console to see if you got some output. To
sync the system clock to the hardware clock you can use hwclock. I
think there is a setting to sync system clock to hardware at shutdown.

/ Jonas