Ubuntu: Set Time and Timezone – Just Troubleshoot IT

Check current date / time

$ date
Thu Aug 22 01:12:32 UTC 2019

List available timezones

$ timedatectl list-timezones

Set timezone

$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

Check current date/time configuration

$ timedatectl status

Sync time with ntp

Ensure that “status systemd-timesyncd” is running

$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd

Time synchronistation is enabled by default. Run the command timedatectl and ensure that “System clock synchroized” and “systemd-timesyncd.service active” are both set to yes. If not, run the following command:

$ sudo timedatectl set-ntp on

Specify your own ntp-servers

nano /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

Edit the configuration file, uncomment NTP= and add your servers space-sperated

NTP=192.168.1.10 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3
FallbackNTP=uk.pool.ntp.org ntp.ubuntu.com

Restart systemd-timesyncd-Service

$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd