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#1 2017-02-25 23:09:35

Alonzo Gomez
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Registered: 2016-12-02
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[SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

Hello.

Using the Cinnamon DE.  I set  the Cinnamon Date and Time settings application to network time "on".   As soon as the window is closed, if I reopen it, the network time setting has changed itself to "off". 

But using the Gnome DE, the Gnome Time and Date settings application "seems" to stay set to "on" with no problem.

NTP is installed, using the default Arch pool NTP time servers,  and is enabled in systemd.  I have also installed networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd 1.0-6 (but I don't know if that is even needed). 

Note: neither NTP nor networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd 1.0-6 were installed until I just installed them when adding the Cinnamon DE.  Gnome seemed to work without them, and still does, with them.  Cinnamon won't seem to use network time either with or without them.

Ideas?

Last edited by Alonzo Gomez (2017-02-27 16:45:02)

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#2 2017-02-25 23:34:20

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
Posts: 17,193

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

$ cinnamon-settings calendar
Loading Calendar module

(cinnamon-settings.py:16757): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:1:41: The style property GtkWidget:wide-separators is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(cinnamon-settings.py:16757): datetime-cc-panel-WARNING **: Failed to get using ntp: GDBus.Error:org.cinnamon.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism.GeneralError: Error enabling NTP: OS variant not supported

(cinnamon-settings.py:16757): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: <data>:1:41: The style property GtkWidget:wide-separators is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

The important one being

(cinnamon-settings.py:16757): datetime-cc-panel-WARNING **: Failed to get using ntp: GDBus.Error:org.cinnamon.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism.GeneralError: Error enabling NTP: OS variant not supported

Which comes from https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-s … ism.c#L661

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#3 2017-02-26 00:27:33

Alonzo Gomez
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Registered: 2016-12-02
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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

loqs,

Hi, thanks for the reply.  I did read the link referenced:

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-s … ism.c#L661

and saw the part you pointed out.  Does this mean that if you aren't using

- Fedora
- Debian
- *SuSE

then Cinnamon won't keep network time?

And if you use Arch, you have to constantly set the time manually?

Is this 2017?

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#4 2017-02-26 00:37:07

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

Alonzo Gomez wrote:

And if you use Arch, you have to constantly set the time manually?

Is this 2017?

Time#Time_synchronization

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#5 2017-02-26 01:51:36

Alonzo Gomez
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Registered: 2016-12-02
Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

loqs, thanks for the information.

It took a little reading, and thinking.  But it seems to me that if timedatectl shows:

Local time: [correct]
Universal time: [correct]   
RTC time: [correct]
Time zone: [correct]
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no

then the time is being set and kept by the network, and should not need any manual adjustment, regardless of whether the Cinnamon Time and Date Settings application works or not. 

Thanks again.

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#6 2017-02-26 08:00:40

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon network time setting won't stay "on".

It took a little reading, and thinking.

You just understood Archlinux ;-P

Please don't forget to mark the thread as solved.

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