For some reason the time on my computer is incorrect. I'm trying to connect to a wireless network (which I've connected to before with success) and unable to. I think that it connected to the incorrect time problem?

Does anyone know why this is happening and a way I could correct it? Thank you so much

Make sure your time zone is set right in timeconfig. Then, as root:

If you're dual-booting with OS X, then your "time zone" is UTC. Otherwise it should be your actual time zone.

In addition, you might also have a look at this: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:network_services:ntp

You're right to suspect that an incorrect timestamp might be giving you network-related problems. dugan's answer will only work if you already have a network connection (which, presumably, you don't). As root, run

(adjusting the date and time appropriately), then run dugan's ntpdate command after connecting to the network to set a more precise time.

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I almost always have to adjust the time after trying a live linux system. Thankfully it doesn't prevent me from connecting.

I su to root and
ntpdate pool.ntp.org

I had some problems using KDE in 14.1 on an laptop and it was related to sleep and hibernation, also check the bios battery if it's an desktop computer.
Check hardware and desktop clocks "hwclock && date" to see if their right (timezone may differ depending on setup).

Edit: Redundant...

Couple of things you might want to know about time.

There are two clocks in your system, the hardware clock and the system clock. The hardware clock, a chip, is kept running by the CMOS battery on the motherboard of your computer and the system clock is run by the kernel; it's software. The system clock get set when you boot the system from the hardware clock, the hardware is set from the system clock when you shut down the system.

The timconfig utility is how you configure your system for the time zone it lives in; you should have used that when you installed Slackware to set the time zone. An additional setting is that you have set your system clock to either your actual timezone or you have set it to UTC (it's suggested to set to UTC unless you're dual booting with Windows-something). Setting it to UTC does not affect your timezone, so be sure to set that correctly) -- your timezone takes care of daylight time switches on the right date and time.

Look at /etc/adjtime, it should look something like this if set to UTC:
If that last line doesn't say UTC, you're hardware clock and system clock are at the same time.

As @dugan suggests, you can use the ntpdate utility to set the time correctly once you have an active network connection. ntpdate sets the system clock, not the hardware clock (that won't get set until you shut the system down).

It's usually a good idea to have the NTP daemon running on your system. You can use the default /etc/npt.conf file (don't twiddle it unless you know what you're doing) and just
which makes it start at boot time and stop at shutdown.

You can start it manually:
Only do that once (the daemon starts and you don't want two [or more] daemons running, use /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd stop first).

Your hardware clock needs to be withing 5 minutes of actual time for the NTP daemon to set it. You can use the above described way to set the hardware clock or you can get into the BIOS and set it there to the correct time before booting.

Hope this helps some.