If you're using KDE, right click on the clock on the left side of the
task bar. Select "Adjust date & time" from the popup menu. A dialog
box will appear asking for the root password. Enter it and click the
"ok" button. Another dialog box will appear that lets you enter the
time in hours, minutes and seconds or you can click on the "+" and "-"
buttons to adjust it forward and backwards.
I'm sure that gnome has a similar facility and I heard that windows does
too.
Seems to me that entering "date" and "hwclock" commands on the command
line is simpler but it's a matter of taste. The great thing about Linux
is that we have choice.
Ed.
Robert Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers
>
> Why is it so complicated? All I want to do is set the time on my computer
> accurately. Have ntp installed. Also installed 2.5 megs of a gazillion
> infos, chrons, etc, & config files to access radio station and god knows what
> else. Still don't know what it takes to access an ntp server and download the
> time to my sysclock.
>
> Can somebody tell me a simple way to do a simple thing?
>
> Bob S.
>
>
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