Karen, Servers rarely are mobile. The only way computers can get geographical information is if they're connected to the internet and timesyncd or nntp is pulling geographical information from a current location. Servers live in data centers and large buildings and server installations usually have several on a server rack. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Jude, > Now I am confused by the laptop lacking hardware comment..freely owning I > might be missing something here. > Every computer I have ever owned, laptop or desktop contains a battery that > has the role of keeping some baseline functions going like the clock. > Sometimes its failing is a hint at greater problems, like a motherboard or > battery quality..but it keeps the time. > Some too can draw time information if requested. > Still, the ability to set time and date are so basic to computer use I am > kind of amazed it is a complex program in Linux..why? > > Especially given how many Linux distributions run servers and other data and > information related services? > Karen > > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.