Celeb Glow
news | March 27, 2026

Setting time with date and hwclock does not permanently set the time

I'm running these:

~$ sudo date --set="2021-06-09 16:33:50.0"
Wed Jun 9 16:33:50 UTC 2021
~$ sudo hwclock --systohc

once the system is rebooted it loses the info and its 4 hours off.

This is an offline system and there is no ntp or chrony solution that will work.

3 Reset to default

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