On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2010 07:00 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >>> >>> On Thursday 23 September 2010 06:15 PM, Brian Wood wrote: >>>> Â ÂIt continually reports the >>>> time incorrectly and gets further off(fast) as time goes by. >>> >>> Are you dual booting with Windows? If yes that might be the reason. >> I have recently installed Fedora 13 by shrinking my ubuntu partition. >> On the start due to some error( on my part) grub only choosing fedora >> to boot the system. After the correction on grub config I can now dual >> boot Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 9.04 - since then the time shown on Fedora >> Desktop is always incorrect. It's started happening only after the >> dual boot option is available to me. Solution required - thanks in >> advance. > > Usually this happens when you dual boot with windows, but I guess it can > happen with Ubuntu too. > > You should check whether Ubuntu is configured to update the hardware > clock to local time or not. If it is, then turn it _off_. You need to > set both Ubuntu and Fedora to keep the hardware clock synchronised with > UTC and display the time adjusted for your time zone. > > To achieve this in Fedora (and probably will work for Ubuntu too) is to > open up system-config-date and under the "Time" tab check the box saying > "System clock uses UTC". THANK YOU VERY MUCH Suvayu. You have solved my problem. Sorry for being late to reply. Actually I am waiting to see whether the changes are permanent or not. > I would also recommend turning ntpd on (a > check-box on "Date and Time" tab) I have not done this though. Is it necessary? > > Hope this will resolve the issue for you. GL. One thing I want to share with you and other users here - I have also been a subscriber to another user's mailing list - though I am not here for long - still the queries I have posted here got quick and perfect solution than elsewhere - it seems to me the users here are more knowledgeable than elsewhere. Thanks a lot- with regards tanmoy > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
