Hi Adam, Adam Mazurkiewicz writes: [...] > I expected that it would sync system time, but it did not. I have > still been getting the time of my computer BIOS in a terminal, not the > synced one. If system clock is too late (or too far in the future) ntpd will not update it «Normally, ntpd exits if the offset exceeds the sanity limit, which is 1000 s by default. » [1] Is this your case? > Also in Xfce DE Clock. I have no idea how to debug it and > fix. To debug you should check "sudo tac /var/log/messages | grep ntpd | less" messages > Any help will be appreciated. Set your clock (via date command or some GUI) and then "sudo hwclock --systohc" to update your BIOS clock. Last but not least: check your hardware clock setting are preserved between reboots, if not you should change it's battery (if it's not broken). HTH! Gio' [1] http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.0/ntpd.htm -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures