On Wednesday, 2010-11-03, Peter Catchlove wrote: > Thanks for the detailed reply. I guess I've got it coming if I use debian > testing: presumably stable doesn't have this problem. In the meantime, I've > learnt how to set the time at cli. > Sounds like I should set the timezone, or be using ntp, since my hwclock > drifts quite badly, but I'll have to wait until the GUI is working again > unless there's an easy way of doing these at the cli. > It says you need a permanent connection for ntp. Is there no way it can > just check against the network once a day or at boot?
Check if you have the ntpdate package installed or do so if you haven't. It has (at least here on Debian/Unstable) a network hook that makes it check time servers when network interfaces come up, e.g. at boot. Haven't had to change time manually in years. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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