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Hi
Please excuse me if the question has been answered before, but my searches came to nothing...
My bubba server is 5 minutes late on world time (i.e. my bubba has time 19.45 and the real time is 19.50. I have it set for automatic time adjustment but this does not help. My question is the following:
A. how is this possible
B. how do I fix this so it will not happen again?
C. how are set the time servers on the interet?

Thanks
Christian

I'd suggest restarting NTP firstly and check the NTP logs.
Sounds like you NTP daemon is not actually connecting to the world NTP service

Thanks Asparak

Here is the only thing I can find in the syslog and deamon log.

Dec 22 13:16:44 bubba ntpd[4340]: synchronized to 195.216.64.208, stratum 2
Dec 22 13:16:44 bubba ntpd[4340]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
Dec 22 13:17:20 bubba ntpd[4340]: synchronized to 212.101.0.10, stratum 2

No errors as far as I can see. I went ahead and did a manual setting and now it seems to be keeping time.
Thanks for pointing me to the logs. I did not know how to see if there was a problem.
Christian

No problem. Its entirely possible for their to be no errors in the log, but NTP to fail to connect. I have seen it a few times, where it appears to be fine and connected, but in fact it is in a partially hung status. Restarting it usually frees up things like that.

Glad its working now.

I think if the time is not manually set accurately enough to begin with ntp fails to set the time (i.e. if the initial time is out by more than a few seconds). That could have been your problem.

If you stop the ntp daemon and run that should set your time fairly accurately as a one-off and you can then start the ntp daemon again.