Kubuntu 9.04 setting date and time automatically

[Derek Broughton]

Nils Kassube wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> Good point. Therefore I uninstalled ntp and tried again. Still the same
> result, the check mark for "Set date and time automatically" in
> systemsettings is unchecked when I start systemsettings again.
> 
>> - but if KDE can't set
>> the time via ntpdate, ntpd should be doing it _anyway_, so if your
>> time isn't right I'd assume ntpd isn't working.
> 
> The time is right because ntpd is working but the KDE systemsettings
> option doesn't work.

Oh, I see.  I don't think it's a permanent thing.  If you have ntpdate or 
ntpd installed (and last time I looked, ntpdate was automatic), checking 
that box will run the update _now_, but you shouldn't need to keep it 
checked because ntpdate gets invoked from /etc/network/if-up.d/ every time 
you bring up a network interface.
-- 
derek