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Popcorn

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Registered: 2011-10-16

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[SOLVED] Gnome Shell's Date and Time doesn't sync to the internet.

I have trouble syncing the time to the internet using the date and time panel using gnome-shell. I'll toggle the option to use the internet, but it doesn't persist. Here's a video of the issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEDQSqKhdM

I tried looking in a few log files for errors and searching the internet for the issue and got nothing,

I'm running GNOME Shell 3.2.0

Last edited by Popcorn (2011-10-21 08:06:39)

Padfoot

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 382

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Shell's Date and Time doesn't sync to the internet.

I am unsure if Gnome uses ntp for time sync or not, but either way, using ntp will solve your issue.

Check to see if it is installed with:

# pacman -Qs ntp

If not, install it:

# pacman -S ntp

And ensure it is starting at boot by adding ntpd to the daemons line of /etc/rc.conf

You will also want to set a nearby pool of time servers in your /etc/ntp.conf.

Look here for more info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTP

Cheers.

Popcorn

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Registered: 2011-10-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Shell's Date and Time doesn't sync to the internet.

Yeah I considered that, but I read it was a bad idea to set the system clock to localtime and have it use UTC. I dual boot with Windows 7 so I'm not sure if using ntp is going to cause issues.

Padfoot

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 382

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Shell's Date and Time doesn't sync to the internet.

It's not an issue.

My netbook dual boots windows 7 with arch (only have windows 7 for itunes - yes, I suffer the use of an iphone )

My arch config (rc.conf) is set for localtime so as to not interfere with windows, and I sync with ntp. It has no problems and takes the localtime setting into account.

Cheers.