[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Annoyances

[John K. Taber]

Terry advised:
 
> 
> On 5/10/05, John K. Taber <jktaber at charter.net> wrote:
> > 1. My FC3 logon screen displays GMT instead of CDT. How can I
> correct
> > this? After user logon, Gnome displays the expected CDT if in the
> Time
> > options, UTC clock is checked.
> >
> > The logon screen time is not a serious problem, just an annoyance.
> 
> More than likely, although your system clock is set to CDT, hwclock is
> set to UTC
> 
> Change time configuration, (hwclock to utc or not)
> Run:
> timeconfig

It turns out that setting time to local (ie, CDT) but specifying ntp in
the GNOME date and time applet worked. I think the applet drives
timeconfig under the covers.

I also added the Southern Methodist Univ and the Aggie ntp servers to
ntp.conf.

This was not an easy problem, and I'm still not sure what I did, but I
found guidance at
http://enterprise.linux.com/print.p1?sid=04/09/10/1449232. This doc also
contains a pointer to a list of ntp servers. The FC3 install has only
two ntp servers owned by Redhat.

Startup is now slowed by waiting for the ntp response, but at least the
time shown on the logon screen and the time shown on the GNOME panel
agree.

John