HOWTO:Automatic synchronization of date and time after every reboot

The problem of automatic synchronization of date and time after every reboot can be solved with the following crontab job.

1. Open a console (can be done with Alt+F2 and "konsole") and enter the following commands.

2. Make (for this session) KWrite the editor for this change of crontab.

for Pardus 2011

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/kwrite

for Pardus 2009

export EDITOR=/usr/kde/4/bin/kwrite

for Pardus 2008

export EDITOR=/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kwrite

3.Start editor for crontab

crontab -e

4 An empty Kwite screen will appear now and copy/paste the following line in this Kwite screen

@reboot ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org > /dev/null 2>&1

make sure that this line is terminated with a <enter> (otherwise this will not work).

5. Save and Close KWrite.

6. Check your modification by

crontab -l

You can check this by modifying the date/time in the BIOS of your computer and see what happens after the reboot.