system clock synchronized: no

Question

# timedatectl reports System clock synchronized: no even when NTP service: active and # systemctl status chronyd shows active (running), and the logs therein don't show anything like an error; I see for example "Using right/UTC timezone to obtain leap second data". This is a RHEL 8 system, the /etc/chrony.conf file is the default.

I expected to see System clock synchronized: yes, which I think means the system is getting synchronized with the pool specified in /etc/chrony.conf. Maybe I'm missing something misinterpreting what this means?

Edit: Full # timedatectl output

               Local time: Tue 2020-10-06 12:11:32 PDT
           Universal time: Tue 2020-10-06 19:11:32 UTC
                 RTC time: Tue 2020-10-06 19:11:32
                Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

Edit: Answer is in https://serverfault.com/questions/1036676/system-clock-synchronized-no-flip-it-to-yes

Solution

I got the same behaviour. to solve it, run the follow command as root:

hwclock --systohc

This will synchronize your hardware clock with your system time to make it more precise

Comments

[ajgringo619]

Can you post the entire results of timedatectl? Add to your question, please.

[Katerl3s]

curiously, the time is right; it matches what I read when I google the time in the PDT timezone.

[ajgringo619]

Mine shows yes, but I'm using systemd-timesyncd instead of ntp.