Can't set clock

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 04 January 2009, Wulfy wrote:
>David Fletcher wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 Jan 2009, Wulfy wrote:
>>> I discovered that my computer clock is 90 seconds fast.  I tried to
>>> reset it using both the "System Settings" applet and the command-line.
>>> In the first case, it complained about not being able to connect with
>>> the time-server and so not being able to set time, date and timezone
>>> data (I'd only changed the time).  Any idea how I'm supposed to get the
>>> time right???
>>
>> You have ntpd installed?
>
>I have ntpdate installed.  I think that supplies the daemon.
>
ntpdate is not ntpd, in fact, in the versions I'm fam with,  starting the ntpd 
via the script in init.d, it generally uses ntpdate to do a crash set of the 
clock to something sane, and then starts the daemon ntpd to keep it that way.

Two different protcols.

><sigh> I've had problems with the public time servers ever since I moved
>to Linux when Sarge was Testing in Debian.  I've never had a problem
>like this, though.

pool.ntp.org is a pseudo round robin dns server and has always worked for me.

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