=====Maintain Accurate Time=====

THe **timedatectl** commands gives overview of current time-related system settings

<code>
[user@host ~]$ timedatectl
               Local time: Wed 2022-03-16 05:53:05 EDT
           Universal time: Wed 2022-03-16 09:53:05 UTC
                 RTC time: Wed 2022-03-16 09:53:05
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
</code>


To change the time zone use 
To find timezones you can use
can also change the time zone using **tzselect**

or
<code>
 timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i dublin
</code>

Then you can use
<code>
 timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Dublin
</code>


To set the time you would use 
<code>timedatectl set-time 9:00:00
</code>

Timectl also enables or disables ntp synchronization with
<code>
timedatectl set-ntp false </code>

you still need to configure **chronyd**

====Configure and Monitor chronyd====

[[:linux:classnotes:RH134:systemlogs:time:chronyd | Configure and Monitor chrony]]