Re: can not set time

[Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de>]

Am 04.02.2017 um 17:43 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
> 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.

Hello Jude,

I tried it all. I googled almost every command related to time setting 
and tried it out. But it did not work. I am still not sure why.

But now, after switching to systemd and systemd-timesyncd it works. See 
my other post.

Thank you for help anyways.
Matthias