On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 02:00:21PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2022-02-06 11:58:08+0100, José Luis González wrote:
>
> > 1. System time is one hour more than it should. Timezone (as set by
> > tzdata) is correct.
>
> Nowadays "timedatectl" is used to configure time.
Strongly disagree. I mean, it *could* be... but you state it like it's
an absolute imperative.
Many of us still use the traditional tools.
My first question for José is: what does the date command *actually*
say? (Follow-ups: What time zone are you in? How did you configure
the time zone? Are you running an NTP daemon? If so, which one, and
what does "ntpq -p" report?)
E.g. for me, I am in the US/Eastern time zone (now called America/New_York)
and I'm running the "ntp" daemon. I don't have the TZ variable set.
So, my setup looks like this:
unicorn:~$ echo "$TZ"
unicorn:~$ cat /etc/timezone
America/New_York
unicorn:~$ ls -ld /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Oct 27 07:16 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
unicorn:~$ dpkg -l ntp | tail -1
ii ntp 1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1 amd64 Network Time Protocol daemon
and utility programs
unicorn:~$ ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
0.debian.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000
1.debian.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000
2.debian.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000
3.debian.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000
-vps-d455c3c7.vp 91.189.91.157 3 u 759 1024 377 74.942 +1.701 0.819
+172.106.167.46 209.51.161.238 2 u 543 1024 377 62.995 +1.964 1.041
-time.nullrouten 132.163.97.1 2 u 485 1024 377 93.519 +0.097 0.823
*time-sjc.0xt.ca 17.253.4.125 2 u 845 1024 377 96.872 +0.563 2.251
+li1210-167.memb 66.220.9.122 2 u 566 1024 377 96.236 +0.522 10.941
-clock.fmt.he.ne .CDMA. 1 u 968 1024 377 93.254 -1.045 7.428
unicorn:~$ date
Sun Feb 6 09:05:43 EST 2022
Note in particular that the timezone is configured in *two* different
places using two different mechanisms. Some programs use one, and some
use the other, so you need to do both. "Welcome to Unix, kid." (The
Debian installer takes care of this for you, if you choose the time zone
correctly during installation.)
Andrew's reply about hwclock is also relevant if José is dual-booting
with another operating system. Are you doing that, José?
