[PLUG] Daylight savings time

[John Jason Jordan]

My watch, telephone and the clocks in the range, microwave and car all
automatically updated themselves last night, but the computers (Fedora
16 [Xfce] and Xubuntu 12.04) remain stubbornly on standard time.

In the past on the Fedora computer I used "# service ntpd stop" followed
by "... start," but this time it has no effect. And the Xubuntu
computer just says "ntpd: unrecognized service." After a bit of
sleuthing I discovered that the ntpd service was not installed on the
Xubuntu computer, so I installed it. But the command line still says
"ntpd: unrecognized service." The Xubuntu Time and Date GUI tool also
shows no update option, and the Help files are for a different version
than the one installed.

Both computers display the clock widget in the Xfce panel, but the
widget has no "update" option. 

The ntpd man page says that the -U option allows setting the update
time interval to a specified number of seconds. I set it to 300 seconds
(five minutes), but half an hour later it still has not updated the
clock.

Are the npt servers still on standard time? Does anyone else have
computer clocks that are an hour ahead today?