Time Date

State

shows the current status

RTC: Local Time Synchronized time with onboard RTC on boot.

NTPCU: Local Time trying to connect and sync time with ntp server.

NTPCS: Local Time synced with ntp server.

NTPS: Local Time served to other clients in network.

Local Time (HH:MM:SS)

System time (from RTC if available) in format (hours:minutes:seconds)

RTC (if available) or NTP

Local Date (YYYY-MM-DD)

System date (from RTC if available) in format (year-month-day)

RTC (if available) or NTP

Timezone

Time zone (with summer/winter time changeover)

UTC

Mode (Disabled/Basic/Expert)

Disabled: NTP Service disabled

Basic: simple configuration mode used in most application

Expert: full access of all settings for the ntp service using the ntp.conf file.

Disabled

Mode (Synchronize clock with NTP Server/Serve clock to NTP Clients)

Synchronize clock with NTP Server:

Local Time synchronisation from a ntp time server.

Serve clock to NTP Clients:

Local Time serving to other ntp clients in network.

Synchronize clock with NTP Server

Primary NTP Server

First address of ntp server to sync with local time.

Secondary NTP Server

Second address of ntp server to sync with local time, if primary address not reached.

NTP Script

Local NTP script on the system ("/etc/ntp.conf")

Variable: ForceFirstSync, can be used to sync the time before starting the service with ntpdate.

Default script

ntpstat

Will report the synchronisation state of the NTP daemon running on the local machine. If the local system is found to be synchronised to a reference time source, ntpstat will report the approximate time accuracy.

list peers

Is used to monitor NTP daemon ntpd operations and determine performance.