Turned on my QubesOS to find its dom0 clock and calendar completely out of sync. It was displaying december of last year. Other qubes, especially the clock-qube (sys-net) were showing the correct time and date information. On dom0 terminal, I performed sudo qvm-sync-clock command. It put the dom0 d…

Yup, this is a known issue since 2021 in coreboot. Purism pureboot is based upon it, and I got hit as well this morning. Some discussion on the purism forums: Clock reset to 2070-01-01 on February 29 - PureOS - Purism community

Dom0 time date is out of order

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Johnboy February 29, 2024, 6:28am 3

maybe of interest:

currently I only start sys-usb automatically. upon login a simple bash script starts sys-net, syncs clock with dom0 and starts whonix afterwards.

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