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xfce clock shows wrong time

Running SolydX ( debian based ) with xfce desktop. HP 8560P laptop.
Suddenly the clock in the system tray is off by 12 hours.
I checked the ntp service- it was inactive. I activated it.

No change

from CLI ran "date" - and that is right.

Here is the result of systemctl status ntp:

Code:

ntp.service - Network Time Service

  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ntp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

  Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-12-21 14:42:56 CST; 6h ago

    Docs: man:ntpd(8)

  Process: 782 ExecStart=/usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

 Main PID: 817 (ntpd)

    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)

  Memory: 3.1M

  CGroup: /system.slice/ntp.service

          └─817 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 119:133



Dec 21 14:44:03 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 45.84.199.136

Dec 21 14:44:03 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 72.46.53.234

Dec 21 14:44:04 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 217.180.209.214

Dec 21 14:44:04 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 45.79.1.70

Dec 21 14:44:05 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 44.190.5.123

Dec 21 14:44:05 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 104.131.139.195

Dec 21 14:44:06 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 2620:135:5003:ffff::123

Dec 21 14:44:07 phils8560 ntpd[817]: Soliciting pool server 71.162.136.44

Dec 21 20:45:55 phils8560 ntpd[817]: receive: Unexpected origin timestamp 0xe92f2219.40a5dda9 does not match aorg 0000000000.00000000 from server@45.79.1.70 xmt 0xe92f76e3.a4ec3084

Dec 21 20:45:55 phils8560 ntpd[817]: receive: Unexpected origin timestamp 0xe92f2219.409f0b3d does not match aorg 0000000000.00000000 from server@217.180.209.214 xmt 0xe92f76e3.a864

Can anyone suggest a fix for this?

I'll provide any info you need..

Thanks,

phil

I'd start with checking the time zone settings of xfce clock plugin https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/clock

You may also try this in a terminal to reset your time.

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

If the output of the date command shows the correct time and time zone information then as suggested I would look at xfce clock plugin. The timezone setting could be different from the system setting. I would not be concerned with the ntp warning. I would expect ntp to disregard those two servers.

To see if ntp is "working" look at the output of the command:
ntpq -p

Thank you, lvm, shortarcflyer and MichaelK,

I checked the Time&date settings in the clock plugin. Right except of course
it reads 11:31:12 PM, but it's actually 11:31:12 AM...

MichaelK here is the output of ntpq -p but I do not know how to read this...

Code:

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

*65-100-46-166.d .SOCK.          1 u  124 1024  377  64.525    1.899  1.796

+t1.time.bf1.yah 98.139.133.62    2 u  607 1024  357  33.195    1.287  6.482

+mailman.shaunc. 132.163.97.6    2 u  302 1024  377  28.846    3.103  2.749

+mailhost.netads 206.108.0.131    2 u  73 1024  377  37.460    0.881  1.195

-45.84.199.136 ( 36.224.68.195    2 u  741 1024  175  120.210    3.996  5.646

-108.61.23.93 (1 108.61.56.35    3 u  652 1024  377  34.020  -0.966  1.561

In "Timezone", in the clock plugin settings, it read 6 ( I am in the same zone as Chicago, IL, USA ).
But I noticed they seem to expect a string , like "America/Chicago" in that box.
So I changed it to that...

And...suddenly it's working! Now the time is correct. I'm still not certain what I did to correct it, though.

Linux - a continual learning experience.

Anyway, Thank you all again.

I assume originally the desktop was configured to default to system time and no idea how it was changed. It looks like the desktop "understands" a fixed offset as well as time zones. Since America/Chicago is -06:00 offset (CST) and the desktop was configured as +6:00 offset so the time displayed was 12 hours fast.

Code:

    remote          refid      st t when poll reach  delay  offset  jitter

==============================================================================

*65-100-46-166.d .SOCK.          1 u  124 1024  377  64.525    1.899  1.796