Recently installed Debian 10 "Buster" at an old computer here and now it's showing $ date output with 1 hour less.
How could be sycronized system time with NTP GMT -3, America/Recife timezone?
To verify the timezone of your system (mine is Europe/Berlin), run
$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/Berlin
If it is wrong, run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
and choose America, then Recife and check if the printed local time is now correct.
You can also print the UTC date with
date -u
which should be your local time +3 hours.
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Is this
tzdatasynchronized with some sort of online clock or just with hardware clock? Looks like it doesn't works alongside withNTP. – Vasconcelos1914 Oct 10 '19 at 15:50 -
The synchronization is usually done by systemd-timesyncd or ntpd or manually. The timezone itself is just static information. You can show the status of your system clock (RTC stores local time or universal time) and status of systemd-timesyncd.service with
timedatectl. Usetimedatectl set-ntp trueto enable synchronization. – Freddy Oct 10 '19 at 17:32 -
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1Had to remove
ntpandntpdate, then$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, which enabled NTP in $ datetimectl` output. – Vasconcelos1914 Oct 10 '19 at 18:47
If the time difference is exactly one hour, it's most likely not a time issue, but a time zone issue.
Maybe you don't need ntp, you just need to set the right time zone.
This answer might help.
answered Oct 10 '19 at 14:03
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The
tzdatapackage automatically manages date, time and NTP in Debian 10 "Buster". – Vasconcelos1914 Oct 10 '19 at 18:49
You should be able to do so using ntp or ntpdate.
apt install ntpdate
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
ntpdate is mostly useful for one-time synchronizations. Whereas the ntp daemon would run in background, and keep your clock up to date:
apt install ntp
cat <<EOF >/etc/ntp.conf
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
server pool.ntp.org
restrict -4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery
restrict -6 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict ::1
EOF
systemctl start ntp
systemctl enable ntp
Though you might just be using the wrong timezone. Some GMT-3 example:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires /etc/localtime
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1Tried it, but conflicted with
tzdata, which is the default package that manages date and time in Debian 10 "Buster". Solved it justly removingntpandntpdate, then$ sudo dpkg reconfigure tzdata, which enabledNET servicein$ timedatectloutput. And yes,tzdatais online synchronized with NTP. – Vasconcelos1914 Oct 10 '19 at 18:45
