Cockpit: sync system time

black3dynamite

@FATeknollogee said in Cockpit: sync system time:

@black3dynamite said in Cockpit: sync system time:

The set time should be set to Automatically using NTP

There’s a greyed out option to automatically use a specific NTP server.

I'm on the Automatic setting but the Red checkmark still says "Time not synced".

Is chronyd.service running?
https://1.2.3.4:9090/system/services#/chronyd.service

FATeknollogee

@black3dynamite chronyd is active

Emad R

@FATeknollogee

timedatectl list-timezones
timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Tokyo

FATeknollogee

@Emad-R Those settings are already set by default.

wrx7m

Are you syncing NTP from an external server? Possibly firewall not letting 123 out? Also, could be a similar issue for internal.

FATeknollogee

Am I the only one with the red exclamation?

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Cockpit: sync system time:

Am I the only one with the red exclamation?

I've not seen it.

FATeknollogee

Went back, took another look, red mark is gone!!
Go figure!

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Cockpit: sync system time:

Went back, took another look, red mark is gone!!
Go figure!

It just needed...... time.

1337

NTP can take a considerable amount of time (hours) to whip the system clock into submission if it had drifted far off UTC.

You can start the ntpd with an option to force it to change time directly. It used to be that you'd run ntpdate first and then start ntpd but ntpdate has been depreciated.

ntpq -p will show a little more details about the status of ntp sync. First thing to run when troubleshooting ntp.