Bug 249267

Summary: Unable to set date/time automatically
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: rd_ree
Component: kcm_clockAssignee: Paul Campbell <paul>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description rd_ree 2010-08-27 20:43:37 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

In System Settings -> Date & Time when I check the checkbox to automatically set the time and authenticate myself as root, I get an error message: "Unable to contact time server: ." even though a server is selected in the dropdown menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
System Settings -> Date & Time -> Check "Set date and time automatically" -> Apply -> Authenticate -> Error

Actual Results:  
An error message is displayed:

Unable to contact time server: .

Expected Results:  
No error messages displayed.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-08-28 22:34:00 UTC 
You probably need to install the ntpdate or rdate tools.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219035 ***