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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

#958 — Re: Setting System Time 10 Minutes Fast

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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#993

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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#998

In article <iphojj$qrt$1@dont-email.me>,
Jerry Peters  <jerry@example.invalid> wrote:
...
>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

And that's the one thing you really don't want you girlfriend to be: "late".

-- 
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. 

    - John Kenneth Galbraith -

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