[Bug 585053] Re: no user interface to configure whether time synchronisation is always made on establishing the network connection.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

But that's not a problem with time-admin, which is not supposed to
control ntpdate at all. It's just that ntpdate shouldn't run by ifup
when interfaces are enabled. Else, there's no point in optionally
installing the ntp daemon.

I suspect ntpdate is not run when your connections are managed using
NetworkManager instead of ifup, which could explain why this bug has
gone unnoticed. If it's the case, that would be a workaround, anyway
NetworkManager is the preferred way to handle connections on desktops
now.

I don't think disabling ntpdate by default would hurt, no application
should rely on it.

>From https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html:
> Ubuntu comes with ntpdate as standard, and will run it once at
> boot time to set up your time according to Ubuntu's NTP server.

So it may well be that server settings are used on desktops, where it
doesn't really make sense, since we get an inconsistent behavior with
the GUI.


** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) => ntp (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- no user interface to configure whether time synchronisation is always made on establishing the network connection.
+ ntpdate shouldn't be run by ifup on desktops (conflict with time-admin's NTP options)

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ntpdate shouldn't be run by ifup on desktops (conflict with time-admin's NTP options)
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