I was curious about what appears to be coin cell battery holder pads on the bottom of the nano dev kit. Does that mean there is (or will be) a Real-time Clock chip somewhere on the board?
us.pool.ntp.org is a pretty good pooled mirror for people in the US. pool.ntp.org is a mirror that’s good worldwide.
Or you can pick on someone who can afford it and go to time.windows.com :-)
First, make sure you have ntpdate installed:
sudo apt install ntpdate
Then, put this in your startup scripts or login script or whatever:
sudo ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
However, note that systemd will run its own NTP client/daemon, that’s not the default ntpd. (Just like systemd replaces DNS, and most other services you’d expect from a classic UNIX system …)
jwatte@jetson-nano:~$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
â—Ź systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-06-26 17:39:08 PDT; 16h ago
...
The server used is configured in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
Add a setting for
NTP=pool.ntp.org
and reload the service and it’ll sync from a service that exists and works.