Thank you for your bug report. Do you have ntpd installed? If so then it's probably the same issue than bug #1848309
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1858095 Title: 'Automatic Date and Time' automatically disabled when trying to enable Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When enabling the "Automatic DateTime" in the gnome control center, it instantly turns off. The following is reported in syslog: Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: Reloading. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket:4: ListenStream= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket → /run/dbus/system_bus_socket; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/docker.socket:5: ListenStream= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/docker.sock → /run/docker.sock; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/smbd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/samba/smbd.pid → /run/samba/smbd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/nmbd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid → /run/samba/nmbd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting resolvconf-pull-resolved.service... Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Succeeded. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started resolvconf-pull-resolved.service. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped. Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd-timedated[10725]: Set NTP to enabled Jan 2 12:10:58 ubuntu systemd[1]: Reloading. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket:4: ListenStream= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket → /run/dbus/system_bus_socket; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/docker.socket:5: ListenStream= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/docker.sock → /run/docker.sock; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/smbd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/samba/smbd.pid → /run/samba/smbd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/nmbd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid → /run/samba/nmbd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting resolvconf-pull-resolved.service... Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: resolvconf-pull-resolved.service: Succeeded. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started resolvconf-pull-resolved.service. Jan 2 12:10:59 ubuntu systemd-timedated[10725]: Set NTP to disabled Jan 2 12:11:03 ubuntu xdg-desktop-por[3204]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: App introspection not allowed $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1858095/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp