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My machine is always showing an hour ahead of the actual time. I am in Texas currently but the time never picks Day light savings. Any time I click on Set Time(Top Right Corner), my system just hangs right there. I have to turn off the machine each time. how do I fix this issue? alt text

This is what happens when I try ntpdate: still 1 hour difference. 

ntpdate time.nist.gov 
13 Dec 21:44:37 ntpdate[3098]: bind() fails: Permission denied 
sudo ntpdate time.nist.gov 
[sudo] password for ubuntu: ntpdate[3237]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset - 12.151112 sec
Jorge Castro
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t3ch
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  • When you reboot, does your system changes the time, or does it stay as before you changed it? – Saifallah Dec 13 '10 at 13:44
  • No, time stays the same. – t3ch Dec 13 '10 at 16:28
  • What exactly do you click on when the system freezes? Just the time and date in the top panel? – Stefano Palazzo Dec 14 '10 at 00:59
  • @Stefano, I have added the snapshot of the button I am clicking. – t3ch Dec 14 '10 at 02:43
  • Is your Hardware clock set to local time or UTC? – lazyPower Dec 15 '10 at 04:28
  • @lazypower, Hardware clock was showing a time diff too.. time is in sync now after changing it hardware clock but I can still not change time from Ubuntu Desktop – t3ch Dec 16 '10 at 13:43
  • Okay but the time is correct now after rebooting? I'll do a little more digging into why you're ubuntu-desktop time settings arent being propigated. Can you give me a detailed list of your hardware setup off the books utilizing lspci, dmesg, hwinfo, uname -ar, cat /etc/issue and send that to my personal email at coder.chuck at gmail dot com? – lazyPower Dec 17 '10 at 04:23

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Have you tried a console alternative to setting it from the gnome-panel time applet? ntpdate is a favorite of mine. i have it setup in a cron script across several Machines and VM's to ensure my system clock never gets skewed that far off. (once a week is fine by my standards. i find that I only migrate away from Atomic Time a few microseconds a week.)

However, with that said, give a try with 

 ntpdate time.nist.gov

and see if it corrects your time issue, without a freeze.

If your system continues to freeze, see if you cant ssh in from another machine and have a look at /var/log/messages. On a Fedora system at one point i was 2 hours ahead of actual time, when i reset the date, it caused a panic because everything on the system was 2 hours ahead. Threw some ridiculous error about future time and locked up. I powered down the machine for a day and gave it another go in a recovery console without an issue.

Edit 1: Another thought occured to me to try and change your TimeZone settings. See if that will reconfigure your clock. See the article located at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

This may be a byproduct of messed up TZ settings.

lazyPower
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  • Tried your solution, Still 1 hour difference. ubuntu@ubuntu-XPS-M1330:~$ ntpdate time.nist.gov 13 Dec 21:44:37 ntpdate[3098]: bind() fails: Permission denied ubuntu@ubuntu-XPS-M1330:~$ sudo ntpdate time.nist.gov [sudo] password for ubuntu: 13 Dec 21:45:14 ntpdate[3237]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset -12.151112 sec ubuntu@ubuntu-XPS-M1330:~$ – t3ch Dec 14 '10 at 02:46
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    @t3ch Remember to update your original question with each thing you try, I've gone ahead and added it for you. – Jorge Castro Dec 15 '10 at 03:53