Re: can not set time

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:

> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 09:07:00
> From: Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: can not set time
> Resent-Date: Sat,  4 Feb 2017 14:07:22 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Am 04.02.2017 um 14:36 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
> > 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:
>
>
> timedatectl set-ntp true
> did not help. It is not changing the time.
>
> My reference PC has debian testing running with systemd-timesyncd. But the broken PC is MINT LMDE which is still on init.d.
>
> Matthias
Okay, since you have ntp, ntpd -qg and then hwclock --systohc --utc may 
get this working for you.  We probably don't need to do anything with 
your timezone setting link to /etc/localtime by now.

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