There is a threshold limit for how "wrong" the time can be ~1000 seconds I believe, before it doesn't update, although in Jaunty, I set my time back 5 hours, ran ntpdate and it updated perfectly fine.
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Synchronizing with a time server does not work when time difference is greater than several hours https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157215 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs