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I can't set the time.
Everytime I try to set it via ntp I get an "Cannot authenticate/execute process" message appear.
I've tried "clocksetup" - no joy, 'kcontrol" doesn't exist.

I'm at a loss.
The laptop is 15 minutes slow.

Any solutions?

Thanks.

Is there a chance you picked the wrong timezone when installing salix?
ntp should be working out of the box, so no need to do anything to set
it up. As a last resort you could disable ntp and set the clock manually
with clocksetup or gtkclocksetup.

Wrong timezone should not give any errors, it should just give you wrong time. Please post the output of "ntpq -p" (run it as root). If ntpd is not running you can start it as root with "service start ntpd".

Thanks for the reply.
The problem appears to have cleared, I'm just not sure how.

I restarted rc.ntpd and also ran a command I found online (netdate time-a.nist.gov).
Even though I'm in the UK, the time suddenly went from being 15 minutes out, to correct.

My timezone is still wrong and I cannot reset it - I get the same "Cannot authenticate/execute process" message that I got when trying to tell KDE to use online time syncing.

I set the correct timezone when installing.

I was also having trouble getting the time set correctly. I'm sure I set the timezone right during install, and I have verified that it was set correctly while the time was wrong, is set right now.

While the clock was wrong output from ntpq -p is as follows: The following seems to have fixed it for me: I have no idea what I'm doing, I was just poking at commands as root, because that seemed like the right thing to do.

cheers!

If what I did was really bad, go ahead and say so, so that others don't blindly follow the blind into chaos.