Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp22-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc From: Curt Subject: Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast References: Organization: Unorganized User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-111 (Linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: 30 Apr 2011 13:35:55 GMT Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 2011 09:35:55 EDT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.227.42.54 X-Trace: 1304170555 news-2.free.fr 4782 82.227.42.54:45664 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:958 On 2011-04-29, Steve 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. ;)