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Re: strange time problem with bullseye



On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 06 March 2024 12:37:09 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > * 2024-03-06 02:47:06+0800, hlyg wrote:
> >
> > > my newly-installed deb11 for amd64 shows wrong time,  it lags behind
> > > correct time by 8 hours though difference between universal and local
> > > is ok.
> >
> > It seems that you have solved the problem but here is another hint.
> > "timedatectl" is a good high-level tool for querying and adjusting time
> > settings. Without command-line arguments it prints a lot of useful info:
> >
> >     $ timedatectl
> >                    Local time: ke 2024-03-06 07:33:00 EET
> >                Universal time: ke 2024-03-06 05:33:00 UTC
> >                      RTC time: ke 2024-03-06 05:33:00
> >                     Time zone: Europe/Helsinki (EET, +0200)
> >     System clock synchronized: yes
> >                   NTP service: active
> >               RTC in local TZ: no
> >
> > See "timedatectl -h" or manual page for more info.
> >
>
> Mine shows:
>
>       Local time: Wed 2024-03-06 12:09:44 EST
>   Universal time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:09:44 UTC
>         RTC time: Wed 2024-03-06 17:20:53
>        Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
>  Network time on: yes
> NTP synchronized: no
>  RTC in local TZ: no
>
> How do I get the RTC to agree with the right time?  I don't reboot this often,  but when I do the time displayed on the onscreen clock is typically off by several minutes.

Install ntp, ntpsec or systemd-timesyncd. Once installed and time is
sync'd, run 'sudo hwclock -w'.

Also see <https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime#Installing_NTP> and
<https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/util-linux-extra/hwclock.8.en.html>.

Jeff


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