date +%T -s "16:45:00"
= Manually set time in HH:mm:ss format.date
= View current time.
Show timekeeping stats:
[root@host]# chronyc tracking
Reference ID : 9B1D9843 (hostname.domain) # Source NTP server.
Stratum : 4 # Number of NTP server hops to a root NTP server.
Ref time (UTC) : Wed Dec 11 20:42:51 2019 # UTC time of NTP server.
System time : 0.000126482 seconds slow of NTP time # Difference between host time and NTP server time.
Last offset : -0.000039551 seconds # Changes made during chrony's last modification.
RMS offset : 0.001020088 seconds # Long-term average offset.
Frequency : 2.941 ppm fast # How much faster/slower the default system clock is from NTP server.
Residual freq : -0.001 ppm # Difference between reference frequency and current frequency.
Skew : 0.135 ppm # Margin of error on frequency.
Root delay : 0.014488510 seconds # Network delay for packets to reach NTP server.
Root dispersion : 0.079814211 seconds
Update interval : 64.3 seconds # How frequently chrony modifies the system clock.
Leap status : Normal # Whether a leap second is pending to be added/removed.
# 1 ppm = 1.000001 seconds.
- Other useful commands
chronyc sources -v
chronyc sourcestats
chronyc activity
timedatectl