Resetting clock after dead battery?

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I’m running on a Librem. Every time the battery drains completely the internal clock is blanked.
I have to reset the clock manually in recovery mode using:
date -s (manually imputing date/time)
and then
hwclock --systohc

This gets the network working so long as I can get the time accurate to the second. But my 2 factors don’t work. I can imagine it is because of a time sync issue.
Is there another command that will resync the time with network time across all qubes?

2

My last laptop had no battery left at all and the internal clock resets with the date of 2013 everytime i start the laptop! but, once I was connected to the internet, By simply doing a
sudo qvm-sync-clock
the date and time would resynchronize directly with the network and everything was correct for the different qubes. I don’t know if it will change anything but is ntp sevice enabled?..

PS: i don’t use 2 factors.

3

qvm-sync-clock isn’t solving the problem.
Clocks appear to be synced with net time. 2 factors, still don’t work though.

4

Well, what is the 2FA you’re using? And even before that, did you set the correct Time Zone? (net time is UTC/Zulu).

5

2f is from password managers. Using date -s, I’ve set the time to the computer timezone setting.
Networks works afterward. 2 factors are still off. What does that suggest?

6

Sorry - no further ideas :thinking:

7

Do you use a debian-minimal template for you clockvm? In this case install systemd-timesyncd in the template and run qvm-sync-clock after that.

8

@Emily Maybe it’s a stupid question (sorry but my native language is not English so I may not have understood correctly) but Is your sys-net have the right time when connected to the internet?

9

Yes.

Strange…but it seems to have fixed itself.
This is the pattern. It dies… network goes down…I reset…sometimes network works…sometimes it doesn’t… I reboot… sometimes that works…sometimes it doesn’t…then it randomly fixes itself.

10

I always thought it could be the internal battery that was dead. Maybe it could come from there? Your problem happens when your battery is empty, a bit like me who couldn’t get a battery anymore… :confused: