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Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast

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Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2011-04-29, Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ubuntu 10.10
>> GNOME 2.32
>>
>> I've been setting my system time 10 minutes fast through the clock/
>> calendar applet in GNOME.  I've noticed that when Ubuntu seems to be
>> updating to the correct time.   Is there any way I can stop that and
>> always have my system time ( or the clock display ) be the real time,
>> just 10 minutes ahead?
> 
> If the time's being corrected, you must be running some app that's
> correcting it (ntpdate? ntpd?).  Find this app and either disable or
> remove it from your system.
> 
> Now that I think of it, the people who've suggested writing your own
> time zone are advising you well because if your system clock has any
> drift to it (and apparently most do), it will wander from the crucial
> ten-minute hiatus you wish to create between you and the rest of us,
> bringing you either inexorably closer or inexorably further away.
> 
>> Thanks in advance
> 
> Very funny.
> 
> PS: My wife keeps her watch a few minutes fast in order to be on time
> (her natural tendency being towards lateness).  One can imagine Mister
> Spock's perplexity at such a stratagem, but there you go, humans are
> illogical.
> 
> ;)
I had a girlfriend who kept her clocks set 20 minutes ahead. It really
didn't help because she *knew* the clocks were fast, so she still had
a tendency to be late.

	Jerry

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Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2011-04-30 13:35 +0000
  Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2011-04-30 19:40 +0000
    Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-04-30 21:52 +0000

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