I similarly noticed that one of my three computers running Ubuntu 14.04
did not have ntp installed after selecting "use network time". I
noticed this when one computer did not update the time for DST. Looking
into it further, I realized it did not have ntp installed. Manually
installing ntp solved
I use Ubuntu Gnome remix, so this is gnome-control-center, does not know if it
applies to Unity too.
Nevertheless:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1420698
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> Thanks. I was convinced that checking "use netweork time" in the
control panel was equivalent to install ntp.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, but it might also check
for/install "ntpdate". If you think this is confusing or not working
right, can you please report this against unity-con
Thanks. I was convinced that checking "use netweork time" in the control panel
was equivalent to install ntp.
Installed and fixed.
Sorry for the noise.
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The symlink warning is unrelated, it's just cosmetical.
timedated is not an NTP service; it's not supposed to keep the time
synchronized. That's either done by "ntpdate" (which is installed by
default on desktops) or "ntp" (which you can install yourself).
timedatectl only does one-time time setti
