Public bug reported: Hello! I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and I noticed some very strange behavior of the date and time settings.
I've been using manually-set date for a long time, but it had a lot of skew (not sure why) so I switched to using the time servers. I just enabled the network time in the clock applet, and added a few closer servers (Europe) from the list it offered next to the usual Ubuntu time server. Then I noticed that the time was very off, by several hours. If I turn off the ntp service (/etc/init.d/ntp stop), then run ntpdate- debian, the time and date are set correctly. I did that yesterday, turned ntp back on, and today I noticed a 16 hour difference again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Thu Sep 20 05:08:19 CEST 2007 [wrong] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ntp stop [sudo] password for bogdanb: * Stopping NTP server ntpd [ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ntpdate-debian 19 Sep 21:08:56 ntpdate[7476]: step time server 193.62.22.98 offset -28799.890942 sec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Wed Sep 19 21:09:13 CEST 2007 [correct] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ntp start sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Sep 20 05:08:46 2007 [sudo] password for bogdanb: * Starting NTP server ntpd [ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Wed Sep 19 21:16:39 CEST 2007 Any idea what could be wrong? I didn't mess with any of the config files, and as far as I can tell the timezone is set-up correctly. Still, the delay does seem to be an even number of hours... (I don't know what it was yesterday, I forgot to check, but I'll look if it happens again.) ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- ntpd behaves strangely---clock is badly delayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141056 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs