[nos-bbs] Where has the time gone?

[jerome schatten]

Let me backtrack a moment… 

I am able to initially change the time with the ‘date’, but now I see it drops the ten minutes again sometime later. So the answer to your initial question Tom is no, I can’t successfully reset the time with the ‘date’ command.

I will look at systemctl as outlined below
j.

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 13:16, SP2L <SP2L at sp2l.ampr.org> wrote:
> 
> Jerome.
> 
> 
> Depends on what you have installed check:
> 
>   systemctl status ntp.service -l
>   systemctl status ntpdate.service -l
> 
> For stop use:
>   systemctl stop ntp.service
> For start use:
>   systemctl start ntp.service
> 
> 
> Best regards.
> Tom - SP2L
> 
> 
> 
> On 15/07/17 21:25, jerome schatten wrote:
>> This is a pi2b running a late version of Jessie
>> Best,
>> j
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 15, 2017, at 12:22, SP2L <SP2L at sp2l.ampr.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jerome.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Which distro is on that PI?
>>> Wheezy-like or Jessie-like?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards.
>>> 
>>> Tom - SP2L
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 15.07.2017 19:33, jerome schatten wrote:
>>>> I have two pi’s running on my lan: One has jnos on it and the other BPQ.  The jnos pi crashed yesterday and in bringing it up again, there were errors which  I was able to deal with. The major thing that is not working now is NTP — I noticed that I’m ten minutes out.
>>>> 
>>>> I looked at port 123 with tcpdump and nada.  Port 123 is open in both directions but no client server activity is shown.
>>>> 
>>>> On the other pi on the lan, NTP works perfectly, so I’m confident I’m receiving the broadcasts.
>>>> 
>>>> /etc/ntp.conf is using the defaults — I never touched that.
>>>> 
>>>> Before I reload the operating system on the flakey pi, I was wondering if there were things I might check first.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> jerome - ve7ass
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