Colin: Synchronising the system time does not cause time zone
difficulties. I use manual time to work around a bug in
Evolution/Thunderbird/etc. And the purpose of my previous post was to
give an example of "why manual time should be preferred for any case
other than a complete lack of internet con
"But I don't see why manual time should be preferred for any case other
than a complete lack of internet connectivity!"
I live in two different time zones. Whenever I change the system time
zone, this messes up my synced phone's calendar. Therefore I do not
change the system time zone and set my c
By 'config' I referred to the 'Configuration' field described in the bug
description. If there is a different "ntp(date) config", please instruct
me how find it. I don't know what an interface is; below are the
contents of my /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate file.
#!/bin/sh
set -e
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ntpdate
occurs in karmic, lucid (alpha3, beta1)
i wanted to set my clock 2 hours forward. i went to
system->administration->time and date, changed the time, and set the
configuration field (the one about whether to sync with internet) to manual.
after