Re: can not set time

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

please check that other box and see if it has systemd-timesyncd.service 
on it.
You can probably start that service up and solve that problem.
Then try timedatectl set-ntp true.
That should make timesync happen on boot.
On Sat, 4 
Feb 2017, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:

> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 08:07:16
> From: Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: can not set time
> Resent-Date: Sat,  4 Feb 2017 13:07:40 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a weird issue with one of my debian boxes (LMDE): I can not set the time. The time is off by ca. 14 min and whatever I try to fix it is failing. I tried ntp, ntpdate, date and rdate. Nothing helps.
>
> ntpdate shows the offset but is not fixing it.
>
> 91# ntpdate 0.debian.pool.ntp.org
> 4 Feb 14:03:55 ntpdate[8159]: step time server 85.114.132.52 offset -855.296824 sec
>
>
> rdate is showing some interesting behaviour. If I run a command like "date && rdate -v  ptbtime1.ptb.de && date" to see the time before and after rdate, the output suggests that rdate was successful:
>
> 81# date && rdate -v  ptbtime1.ptb.de && date
> Sat Feb  4 14:16:04 CET 2017
> Sat Feb  4 14:01:49 CET 2017
> rdate: adjust local clock by -855 seconds
> Sat Feb  4 14:01:49 CET 2017
>
> But in fact 1 second later the time is back to old values again:
>
> 82# date
> Sat Feb  4 14:16:06 CET 2017
>
>
> timedatectl is showing wrong time as well:
>
> 93# timedatectl
>      Local time: Sat 2017-02-04 14:20:39 CET
>  Universal time: Sat 2017-02-04 13:20:39 UTC
>        RTC time: Sat 2017-02-04 13:20:39
>       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CET, +0100)
>
>
> But is should be:
>      Local time: Sa 2017-02-04 14:06:25 CET
>  Universal time: Sa 2017-02-04 13:06:25 UTC
>        RTC time: Sa 2017-02-04 13:06:25
>       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CET, +0100)
>
>
> I am lost.
>
> Matthias

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