How to set the date and time when getting "error setting new timezone" in KDE

[anchorschmidt]

Changing the date and time in KDE can result in this error sometime. Here is how to workaround it.

1: Go to the NTP pool project site. http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/
2a. There will be a list of continents on the side from which you can narrow down to the country in which you are situated.
2b. Take note of the URL
3. Open terminal and login as root.
4. Run (without quotes) "ntpdate (URL of country)"
5. For example. "ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org" for Germany.
6. Your clock should be set.

I hope that this helps you.

[Bald Brick]

Changing the date and time in KDE can result in this error sometime. Here is how to workaround it.

1: Go to the NTP pool project site. http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/
2a. There will be a list of continents on the side from which you can narrow down to the country in which you are situated.
2b. Take note of the URL
3. Open terminal and login as root.
4. Run (without quotes) "ntpdate (URL of country)"
5. For example. "ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org" for Germany.
6. Your clock should be set.

I hope that this helps you.

This will certainly work, and  if you run ntpdate regularly as a cron job you can keep your system clock reasonably close to the clock you are synchronizing with. I did it for several years before there were better alternatives. But see the man page of ntpdate:

Disclaimer: The functionality of this program is now available in the ntpd program. See the -q command line option in the ntpd - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution

You would be better off using the ntp daemon instead.

[anchorschmidt]

Thank you!