Time not syncing

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#1

I am dualbooting windows and garuda. On windows the time works perfectly after I set it to use UTC as this archwiki page suggests System time - ArchWiki
but on garuda the system time is behind I have enabaled ntp but the time is not syncing as you can see here

[sudo] password for zany130:
               Local time: Thu 2021-09-02 14:12:17 EDT
           Universal time: Thu 2021-09-02 18:12:17 UTC
                 RTC time: Thu 2021-09-02 18:12:17
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

checking the systemd timesync unit shows this

systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-09-02 14:05:10 EDT; 11min ago
       Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
   Main PID: 313160 (systemd-timesyn)
     Status: "Daemon is running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19031)
     Memory: 1.1M
        CPU: 76ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service
             └─313160 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd

Sep 02 14:05:10 Kiseki systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synchronization...
Sep 02 14:05:10 Kiseki systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.

so I don't know what could be the problem.

inxi -Faz
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           chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
           IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASRock driver: igb v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
           chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
           IF: enp10s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-1: anbox0 state: down mac: <filter>
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#2

Could you please try with
systemctl restart systemd-networkd?
Ref
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-timesyncd

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#3

Tried no luck

#4

Maybe the suggested troubleshooting there?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-timesyncd#Dynamically_set_NTP_servers_received_via_DHCP

#5

still not showing the right time even tried rebooting

#6

Maybe you could try with a /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf set-up. e.g. (just copying from the wiki above)

[Time]
NTP=0.arch.pool.ntp.org 1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org
FallbackNTP=0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 0.fr.pool.ntp.org
#7

well by default it looks like this

╰─λ sudo cat /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.bak
#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
#  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
#  any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. Local configuration
# should be created by either modifying this file, or by creating "drop-ins" in
# the timesyncd.conf.d/ subdirectory. The latter is generally recommended.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file and all drop-ins.
#
# See timesyncd.conf(5) for details.

[Time]
#NTP=
#FallbackNTP=0.arch.pool.ntp.org 1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org
#RootDistanceMaxSec=5
#PollIntervalMinSec=32
#PollIntervalMaxSec=2048

which according to the wiki is how its supposed to be by default

I tried changing it to this

 ╰─λ sudo cat /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
#  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
#  any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. Local configuration
# should be created by either modifying this file, or by creating "drop-ins" in
# the timesyncd.conf.d/ subdirectory. The latter is generally recommended.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file and all drop-ins.
#
# See timesyncd.conf(5) for details.

[Time]
NTP=0.arch.pool.ntp.org 1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org
FallbackNTP=0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 0.fr.pool.ntp.org
RootDistanceMaxSec=5
PollIntervalMinSec=32
PollIntervalMaxSec=2048

with no luck

some interesting things I found

● systemd-networkd.service - Network Configuration
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-09-03 08:02:48 EDT; 3s ago
TriggeredBy: ● systemd-networkd.socket
       Docs: man:systemd-networkd.service(8)
   Main PID: 19546 (systemd-network)
     Status: "Processing requests..."
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19031)
     Memory: 1.3M
        CPU: 39ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-networkd.service
             └─19546 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd

Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: enp10s0: Link UP
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: enp10s0: Gained carrier
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: anbox0: netdev ready
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: anbox0: Link UP
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: lo: Link UP
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: lo: Gained carrier
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: enp10s0: Gained IPv6LL
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: Enumeration completed
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd[1]: Started Network Configuration.
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd-networkd[19546]: anbox0: netdev exists, using existing without changing its parameters

● systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-09-03 08:02:48 EDT; 3s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
             man:localtime(5)
             man:org.freedesktop.timedate1(5)
   Main PID: 19547 (systemd-timedat)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19031)
     Memory: 1.0M
        CPU: 56ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timedated.service
             └─19547 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timedated

Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.

● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-09-03 08:02:48 EDT; 3s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
   Main PID: 19550 (systemd-timesyn)
     Status: "Daemon is running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19031)
     Memory: 1.1M
        CPU: 60ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service
             └─19550 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd

Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synchronization...
Sep 03 08:02:48 Kiseki systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.

 ╭─[email protected] in ~ took 13ms
 ╰─λ timedatectl show-timesync
SystemNTPServers=0.arch.pool.ntp.org 1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org 192.168.2.1
FallbackNTPServers=0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 0.fr.pool.ntp.org
RootDistanceMaxUSec=5s
PollIntervalMinUSec=32s
PollIntervalMaxUSec=34min 8s
PollIntervalUSec=0
Frequency=0

 ╭─[email protected] in ~ took 6ms
 ╰─λ timedatectl timesync-status
       Server: n/a (n/a)
Poll interval: 0 (min: 32s; max 34min 8s)
 Packet count: 0

 ╭─[email protected] in ~ took 4ms
 ╰─λ timedatectl
               Local time: Fri 2021-09-03 08:03:44 EDT
           Universal time: Fri 2021-09-03 12:03:44 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2021-09-03 12:03:44
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

the RTC and universal time are actually correct its the local time thats bad

#8

I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas.
If it really matters, you could try disabling systemd-timesyncd and using ntpd in the varous options in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#Time_synchronization.
But I wouldn't want to make things unnecessarily complicated, maybe there is a solution.

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#9

no problem I found out how I can manually force it to sync here System time - ArchWiki but ideally this should just be working out of the box, like it does in vanilla arch so either something is wrong with how garuda syncs time or something I did is breaking it. I remember having this issue since day 1 of using garuda so idk.

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#10

Well, for me, with standard Dr460nized configuration, everything works ootb...

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#11

Garuda time sync is fine, for me and the rest of the world :slight_smile:

For me, it is the other way around, the M$ time is always adjusted.
I always have to turn off a switch in time settings that M$ must set at boot time.

#12

yeah agree usually it's windows that has the wrong time but on this machine its Linux don't know why all my configs related to time on garuda seem to be fine (posted about them above) so can't really figure out what could be wrong

whats even more strange is i was using a vanilla arch install before this configured almost exactly the same way (which is why I switched to garuda since its basically exactly how i would setup arch) and it was working fine there dualbooting with windows so this is really strange. If anyone has any ideas please let me know

a tempory solution could be to have a startup script run
sudo ntpd -qg and sudo hwclock --systohc though if I'm going to that maybe it would just be better to replace systemd-timesync ?

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#13

Same here! I had to manually bump a time sync to get the right time!
I have no idea why it fails.

#14

Because Windows idiots are driving the bus.

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#15

At first I thought you are telling me that you're the Bus Driver which made me think there's no need to tell me, I can see that myself!)

But then I found a Switch in Garuda Settings Manager to keep RTC in Localtime and all is good now!

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#16

I will mark your issue aa solved.

Welcome to Garuda.

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#17

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