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Sorcerer17

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Registered: 2020-05-20

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] My clock time is about 70 seconds (about a minute fast)

So for some reason my clock is running slightly faster than Internet time. For example when I run the timedatectl command, this is the result:

Local time: Tue 2020-10-27 11:37:31 EDT 
Universal time: Tue 2020-10-27 15:37:31 UTC 
RTC time: Tue 2020-10-27 15:37:31     
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no                           
NTP service: inactive                     
RTC in local TZ: no     

The correct time when I ran this command should have been 11:36:20 according to https://time.is . My timezone is correct; I am in the New York time zone. The time.is website also says "Your clock is 1 minute and 11.3 seconds ahead."

Is there something I'm missing? How do I fix this?

Last edited by Sorcerer17 (2020-10-27 15:58:00)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] My clock time is about 70 seconds (about a minute fast)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ronization

QuiZNo

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2015-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] My clock time is about 70 seconds (about a minute fast)

Your NTP service is inactive. Without syncing your clock will skew over time. Try setting up NTP. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … col_daemon

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 636

Re: [SOLVED] My clock time is about 70 seconds (about a minute fast)

You already have it installed, all ya gotta do is set it up.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-timesyncd

Sorcerer17

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Registered: 2020-05-20

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] My clock time is about 70 seconds (about a minute fast)

Thank you Scimmia and QuiZNo and Zod!
I looked at the System Time Synchronization and the systemd-timesyncd wiki pages you sent and that helped! I previously didn't know what NTP was or that I had to activate it.

I just started and enabled the SNTP daemon that comes with systemd, systemd-timesyncd and that solved the problem immediately.