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Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast

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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.

;)

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