[Bug 781088] Re: Time is not syncronized with NTP-server

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from gerti's message of Sat May 21 16:47:41 UTC 2011:
> Hi Clint,
> 
> I appreciate, that a lot of the work going on around Ubuntu, is  
> voluntary non-paid time,
> and I DO appreciate, that heroic endeavor; cause otherwise, I could  
> only fall back to the ridiculously bug-ridden MS Windows...
> But I would recommend that a person having authority to and taking  
> upon himself to close a bug-report (as invalid), at least had read the  
> bug-report, before closing the case :
> 
> I reported, that my completely raw (i.e. non-update) 11.4 Ubuntu did  
> not adjust the clock correctly.
> As this had not been a problem in all the earlier versions of Ubuntu  
> (and I have run them all), I was sure, that the nice Ubuntu-peoples  
> would like to know.
> 
> Therefore I tried to experiment a little, amongst which removing the  
> NTP-daemon,
> before reporting the bug.
> 
> This IS a current bug,
> the clock is NOT adjusted correctly after having installed 11.4 on an  
> Acer Aspire one.
> 
> In my opinion its an flawed thinking, to remove the possibility under  
> settings to configure, which NTP-servers should be contacted to adjust  
> the clock.

gerti, first I mistyped "useful" as "useless" in my reply, as I think
users find it quite use*ful* to have the ntp daemon synchronizing
their time.

Is it possible that you had temporary connection problems that prevented
the automatic time synchronization from working? I tested a fresh install
and it kept the time synced as I would expect. I didn't try starting
with a clock that was wildly out of sync with true time though.. maybe
thats part of the problem you're having? ntpd does refuse to make big
jumps in time, so if you are too far off, it doesn't help.

That the ability to change the NTP servers has been removed is more a bug
in indicator-datetime, not so much the ntp daemon which is really just
the magic that happens behind the scenes.

I could definitely argue that before starting ntpd, setting the option
to set the time "Automatically from the Internet" should use ntpdate to
set it if it is too far off.

So, I'm opening a new task against indicator-datetime, which we'll leave
at status New, so developers more familiar with its operation can decide
if this is by design or an accidental regression.


** Also affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Time is not syncronized with NTP-server