The weirdness I wanna show you is this:
Correct me if I’m wrong but afaik all computers worldwide, which are connected to the internet, receive the time from the Atom Clock somewhere in a cave deep within the Swiss Alps. Which made me think they all should show the identical time – timezones adjusted. And this is independent from operating system or how fast the processors are.
Weirdly enough my fastest PC shows the time already 2, respectively 3, minutes later than the 2 laptops. So on my good desktop my imaginary boss is already shouting at me while on hubby’s lame lappy I still have 3 minutes of coffee ciggie pee break.
Any more scientifically minded people around here? Do you know different facts than me or how this came about? Not a conspiracy theorist but maybe I’m onto something sinister here?
PS: Hubby is just a stupid male but no fear, he’s not putting yellow post-it notes on his screen. This is a standard function of almost all Linux distros, which makes him kinda smart for using it. ๐
Thar She Blows! 
Wrong. Internet time has a ton of providers. The last time I looked, the atomic clock was no longer on my list.
I dunno linux so can’t help on setting all 3 to the same feed.
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Thx for info, Linda. Well, all 3 are on the same router, same ISP, same fiber strang. And they all should have the same ISP adress or what’s that called since they are located in the same house and for that photo even on the same desk.
I don’t think the OS has anything to do with “the feed”.
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When i googled, I found a
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…I found the NYP needs to be set, or installed and set to sync (or be active).
Thrre is also a systemd-timesyncd service that maybe involved.
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That’s all Bohemian villages for me, only know that Manjaro Linux runs on systemd. And all 3 computers have the same OS running, that’s why I’m so baffled about the time differences. I didn ‘t set or install nuffink, a simple system clock is part of the system and comes pre-installed.
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Manufacturers do the initial settings. Different computers could easily have different settings. Online instructions are pretty simple/clear, should you decide you want them synced.
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Manufacturers did shit on our machines. I assembled the desktop myself, he’s seen nothing but Linux OSes and software, ever. My lappy came with Linux Mint that I swapped for first EOS and now Manjo. Hubby’s lappy came originally with Windows … oh, XP or sumfink. Throughout its long life it was cleaned out a dozen times and lately we put a new SSD in to lenghten its life span even further. In any case, there in nothing in any of our systems that was ever done by any manufacturer.
And we did nothing, just installed Manjaro without changing any of those mundane settings. Of course they were installed with Manjo of different generations but since it’s a rolling release they are all on the same up-to-dateness. That’s the beauty of rolling distros.
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And sorry.. just saw my typo: it’s NTP… Network Time Protocol.
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