What to do if your Raspberry Pi has the wrong time

Theoretically, your Raspberry Pi should set itself to the right time automatically using NTP (Network Time Protocol); however for me that hasn’t worked on a number of occasions. I think it fails to sync correctly when the internal clock is too far adrift from the time reported by the NTP server, but anyway, this is how to fix it.

Find the right NTP pool servers for your location on the NTP Pool Project, I use the UK NTP Pool

Edit your /etc/ntp.conf file, and replace the list of servers there with the ones that you found on the NTP Pool Project:

server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst

Restart the NTP daemon with sudo /etc/init.d/ntp restart, and then check the time is correct with the date command - it might take a few minutes to straighten itself out.

This is one of a series of posts I've written about the Raspberry Pi. Why not read some other Raspberry Pi related posts?