Comments on: How to Set Time, Timezone and Synchronize System Clock in Linux

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:12:05 +0000

If I want to set time on different Linux machines in one go or use single command so that all of them stay in sync, is this possible?

if yes, how we can achieve this?

By: Krishna

Krishna — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:52:05 +0000

Good Explanation with a step-by-step process.

By: Jer

Jer — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:52:34 +0000

Impressive step-by-step instructions. The animated samples made it easy to understand.

By: Raju

Raju — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:39:58 +0000

I am facing a new issue with my server time every day it exceeds 2 seconds. Can you please suggest the server time synchronization.

root@bigdata:~# date
Mon Apr  6 18:17:38 CEST 2020
root@bigdata:~# timedatectl
                      Local time: Mon 2020-04-06 18:19:48 CEST
                  Universal time: Mon 2020-04-06 16:19:48 UTC
                        RTC time: Mon 2020-04-06 16:19:47
                       Time zone: Europe/Madrid (CEST, +0200)
       System clock synchronized: no
systemd-timesyncd.service active: no
                 RTC in local TZ: no

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:18:55 +0000

In reply to Harshal Wagh.

@Harshal Wagh

Yes, they should have the same time if they both have NTP client service running and synced with an NTP server.