OS - Debian: setting time and automatic date - time adjustment

[practicalli-johnny]

The OS system date can be changed by the root account or accounts in the sudo group.

GNOME Automatic Date & Time provides its own timedatectl service rather than use the ntp service via the debian ntp package.

To disable automatic date-time:

timedatectl set-ntp 0

To switch on

timedatectl set-ntp 1

When the timedateclt is disabled, then the date command can be used to set a specific date and or time.

Example: set the date and time

 date -s '2024-09-16 21:32:00'

date command will show the current date, confirming that the OS system date was changed.

[practicalli-johnny]

Added journal entry on setting time on Debian Linux

https://practical.li/journal/megalinter-grafana-dashboards/#debian