The initial display enables you to set the date and time of your system manually.
Select the
Network Time Protocol
tab to configure your system to use NTP servers instead.
Setting the Clock
To change these settings later, choose → → .
To configure your system to use network time servers, select the
Enable Network Time Protocol
option. This option disables the settings on the
Date and Time
tab and enables the other settings on this screen.
By default, Fedora is configured to use three separate groups, or pools, of time servers. Time server pools create redundancy, so if one time server is unavailable, your system synchronizes with another server.
To use an additional time server, select
Add
, and type the DNS name of the server into the box. To remove a server or server pool from the list, select the name and click
Delete
.
If your machine is always connected to the Internet through a wired connection, select the
Synchronize system clock before starting service
option. This option may cause a short delay during startup but ensures accurate time on your system even if the clock is significantly wrong at boot time.
Laptops and NTP
Do not use this option with laptop computers that sometimes use wireless networks.
If the hardware clock in your computer is highly inaccurate, you may turn off your local time source entirely. To turn off the local time source, select
Show advanced options
and then deselect the
Use Local Time Source
option. If you turn off your local time source, the NTP servers take priority over the internal clock.
If you enable the
Enable NTP Broadcast
advanced option, Fedora attempts to automatically locate time servers on the network.