System time not syncing via internet

[Colin Law]

On 11 May 2013 02:26, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:31:59 +0100
> Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> I think it is a bug as the option to sync from internet is selected,
>> but it does not.
>
> And I agree with you there as far as "sync from the internet" means
> "keep this machine time-synced". Which means not only once per if-up,
> but continuously (and, BTW, this is how I read it nowadays). Please
> note that when we used to connect/disconnect, ntpdate would do this job
> as well.
>
> But, nowadays, well worth a bug on itself. Tempora mutantur, nos et
> mutamur in illis.

Bug reported [1]

I have seen suggestions that it should re-sync (via ntpdate) if the
DHCP lease is refreshed, but since I am using a fixed IP address this
may be part of the problem.  I have added a call of ntpdate into
cron.daily to solve the problem.

Thanks for the help.

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1178933