Problems with Modification time in the future?

[Carsten Neumann]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone :)
> Has anyone other than myself been having problems, while compiling KDE
> from the source code, with a warning that says that the modification
> time is in the future?  I have experimented by compiling non-kde
> applications from source, and I never see such a warning.
> If you can give me wisdom on this subject, I would greatly appreciate
> it.
> 
> On the same subject, has anyone but me been having trouble with their
> clock since updating to KDE 3.2rc1?  My issues with the above mentioned
> modification time issue began almost immediately after I compiled KDE
> from source.  Despite my most valiant efforts, my time zone reads as
> "UTC" instead of "CST"  I am in the same time zone as Chicago, IL, which
> is Central Standard Time.
> 
> I apologize if this appears to ramble, but I have so much that I could
> say about this issue, that I will only lay it all on you if you say that
> you really want to hear it all :)  Suffice to say, I have never had any
> issues like this before, and I have not knowingly changed anything
> realating to my time zone.  My experience with Linux over the years has
> been that I set my time zone when I install the OS, and it just works :)
> In closing, I want to make clear that I really do love KDE, and the
> reason why I continue to fight this issue is that I have learned that
> however much I love KDE, the versions that ship with my distro just
> can't compare to the official versions of KDE :)
> 
> If you have any questions for me relating to the issue mentioned in the
> subject line of this e-mail, let me know and I'll be glad to answer
> them.  If you have any links to bug reports that I can add my comments
> to, let me know, I would love to be of assistance :)
> 
> Steven P. Ulrick

Hi Steven,

as I can see from your mail header, that your system clock is 6 hours in the past.
This will give you certain network problems - like you've encountered.

1. Choose the correct timezone by placing an appropriate copy of the zoneinfo file
   (in you case /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago) as /etc/localtime.
   There come suitable graphical tools to accomplish this with the distros.

2. Adjust your system clock to reflect the correct time:
   a) use date(1)
     or even better:
   b) use a network time server:
      -) via e.g. ntpdate and place a call of it into your ppp-up script
        or if you have a permanent internet connexion
      -) you can run a NTP server (ntpd).
         There are lists of NTP servers (use of stratum 2 is recommended) available at e.g.:
         http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
   Don't forget to update your hardware clock with hwclock(8) after you've
   corrected your system clock.

3. If you run only a U*X OS, change your system clock to UTC and add a "-u" option
   to the hwclock(8) call at boot-time.

HTH, kind regards,

	Carsten
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