On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <r...@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
