How to fix my clock, its slow by a couple of minutes

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I just added the 2 timeservers and removed the others but i get the error from yast that it cant start the chrony service

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oh, never mind, i had the gui yast open at the same time as the command line version thtas why the error happened

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@erbenton ahh, so all good now?

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well, i am still 2 seconds off - how long do i need to wait for this to update iteself

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nope, still 2 seconds off and i did both pc’s

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wait, i misread it, its a lot more off

Thu 2024-06-13 02:37:45 UTC
vs
Thu 2024-06-13 02:40:09 UTC

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@erbenton what does chronyc tracking show from both systems

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PC1

chronyc tracking

Reference ID : A29FC801 (time.cloudflare.com)
Stratum : 4
Ref time (UTC) : Thu Jun 13 02:43:56 2024
System time : 0.000251908 seconds slow of NTP time
Last offset : -0.000259353 seconds
RMS offset : 0.003533100 seconds
Frequency : 22.919 ppm fast
Residual freq : -42.846 ppm
Skew : 2.034 ppm
Root delay : 0.043341704 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.004276142 seconds
Update interval : 64.7 seconds
Leap status : Normal

PC2:

chronyc tracking

Reference ID : 00000000 ()
Stratum : 0
Ref time (UTC) : Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970
System time : 0.000000004 seconds slow of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000000000 seconds
RMS offset : 0.000000000 seconds
Frequency : 12.006 ppm slow
Residual freq : +0.000 ppm
Skew : 0.000 ppm
Root delay : 1.000000000 seconds
Root dispersion : 1.000000000 seconds
Update interval : 0.0 seconds
Leap status : Not synchronised

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@erbenton PC2 isn’t configured, no ntp server… and it’s showing epoch?? CMOS battery ok?

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I believe the cmos battery is ok, hard to tell on a laptop, i would change it for good measure if i could get at it easily. Is there a SW method to check it?

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could it be a systemd service interfering with it? I wouldnt know what to check to verify the proper services are running
Let me reboot to bios and see if it has any info on the battery there

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BIOS show time and date are approximately correct so i think the battery is ok

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@erbenton and set to UTC time in the BIOS?

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yes, set to UTC in BIOS
I just checked in yast and chrony was dead, i set it to start on boot. now i need to reboot BRB

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ok, chrony shows as running but the time is still off
and chronyc tracking shows the same bad data

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something here isnt right:

service chronyd status

  • chronyd.service - NTP client/server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2024-06-12 20:02:48 PDT; 3min 46s ago
    Duration: 56.034s
    Docs: man:chronyd(8)
    man:chrony.conf(5)
    Process: 1668 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/chronyd $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 1707 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/chrony/helper update-daemon (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 1701 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    CPU: 85ms

Jun 12 20:01:52 systemd[1]: Starting NTP client/server…
Jun 12 20:01:52 chronyd[1701]: chronyd version 4.5 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +NTS +SEC>
Jun 12 20:01:52 chronyd[1701]: Frequency -12.006 +/- 0.519 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift
Jun 12 20:01:52 systemd[1]: Started NTP client/server.
Jun 12 20:02:48 e chronyd[1701]: chronyd exiting
Jun 12 20:02:48 systemd[1]: Stopping NTP client/server…
Jun 12 20:02:48 e systemd[1]: chronyd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 12 20:02:48 systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server.

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@erbenton It’s not finding any ntp servers…

Should see;

Jun 12 22:08:10 grover systemd[1]: Starting NTP client/server...
Jun 12 22:08:10 grover chronyd[2016]: chronyd version 4.5 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +NTS +SECHASH +IPV6 -DEBUG)
Jun 12 22:08:10 grover chronyd[2016]: Frequency -4.525 +/- 0.036 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift
Jun 12 22:08:10 grover chronyd[2016]: Source myserver offline
Jun 12 22:08:10 grover systemd[1]: Started NTP client/server.
Jun 12 22:08:17 grover chronyd[2016]: Source myserver online
Jun 12 22:08:20 grover chronyd[2016]: Selected source myserver

Do you have an internet connection, DNS ok?

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yes, i have been using the laptop (which has the problem) for the entire session here on the forums

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@erbenton can you show your /etc/chrony.conf and /etc/chrony.d/pool.conf

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There is a suse upload service but i cant remember the name of the program to use to upload it there. It would make it easier for you if i used that I think