time-admin help docs show the ability to show/select ntp internet time servers, but the app itself seems to have lost this ability.

[Scott Cowles Jacobs]

The Time Administration Tool Manual ("Help" clicked from time-admin window)
states "You will be able to choose from a list of Internet servers to keep your
computer clock synchronized automatically.", however no such list appears. It
also states "Synchronize now button
This will allow you to synchronize just once with the selected Internet
servers."
I see no such button.

I remember several Ubuntu versions ago, I had this ability. I think it was
9.10. I was in Germany, and I needed this ability, as the NTP server
automatically selected for my area was non-functional.

I imagine you have decided it is no longer necessary, but forgot to remove it
from the docs.

If it IS supposed to be there, then it is obviously a bug.
If not, then it's a "bug" in the documentation.
I had to look in synaptic to see the version number, as the time-admin window
has no "About" option in the menu (maybe this is a bug?).
Also invoking time-admin from the terminal seems not to have the usual Linux
reponse to --version or --help options, and just brings up the window without
comment...

I have attached screenshots showing time-admin's help windows, that show the button that one can click to select time servers, and the window that results from that click showing various internet time servers which one can checkmark to select.

[IS there a package somewhere that allows one to see/change the NTP servers?]

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scott@scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ uname -a
Linux scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS 3.11.0-13-generic-tuxonice #20~ppa1-Ubuntu SMP
Fri Nov 8 11:40:45 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

scott@scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
[This is actually Lubuntu]

gnome-time-admin: 3.0.0-2ubuntu2
gnome-system-tools : 3.0.0-2ubuntu2
system-tools-backends : 2.10.2-1ubuntu1
liboobs-1-5 : 3.0.0-1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-time-admin 3.0.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic-tuxonice i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 26 13:54:30 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-27 (29 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707)]

Here is the second screenshot...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elbarbudo (patricearnal)]

4 years after, the bug is still here...
I just installed Linux Mint 19 Tara and the help /doc says it is possible to change the time servers
'screen capture of documentation'
But the tool itself does not allow this modification:

[Elbarbudo (patricearnal)]

Second screen capture : NO way to select time servers.

Either update the documentation or better, allow the choice of time servers from the tool.

Why did this function disappear without notice?