The time is 1 hour later

cazz

Hi
I have notice my firewall show timestamp 1 hour later.
Not sure why, I have set right timezone and add a timeserver but still it show wrong.
I have even change in timezone GMT to see any change but it does not change at all

mer

@cazz
Is NTP actually running? Go to Status, NTP see if there is anything with "Active peer" in the first column.
On the Services, NTP, Settings what do you have for the "Timeservers" field? By default it should have something like 0.pfsense.pool.ntp.org and the "Is a pool" should be checked. That should also be the default on the System, General Setup page.

@cazz said in The time is 1 hour later:

I have notice my firewall show timestamp 1 hour later.

Where are you seeing this, in the system logs?

cazz

@mer

In Status för NTP I can see status Active Peer that go to the IP that I have with 0.se.pool.ntp.org

In services NTP settings I have set 0.se.pool.ntp.org and have not select any interface so it run a wildcard and "Is a Pool" is checked.

What I have done now is add "0.pfsense.pool.ntp.org" in NTP service so I have now two Time servers
But I see no change.

mer

@cazz
So it sounds like NTP is synchronized to a valid time server, which is good.
The only thing I can think of is the timezone definition is "wrong", maybe the data is incorrect and I'm not sure how to prove or correct it.

Where is the timestamp wrong? Is it on the first page after you log in (the dashboard) or somewhere else?

cazz

@mer
Is when I look on the Firewall logs

/UPDATE
Strang is that when I try with GMT+2 (Stockholm have +1) it still go one 1 hour later?

cazz

/UPDATE 2
I have see that system time have same problem in "Status>System Logs>System>Genteral" when it show 1 hour late

But when I look in "Status>System Logs>NTP" I can see it have right time

Feb 20 20:48:01	ntpd	47159	Soliciting pool server 194.58.207.148

But also some error

kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized

mer

@cazz
That kernel message can happen during system boot before it get synchronized.

In the GUI, Diagnostics, Command Prompt there is a place to enter commands. If you enter the command date in there does it report the correct time?

If it does, then I think the system time is actually synchronized correctly. I have no idea why the firewall logs would show it differently; I'm out of ideas on where to look. Perhaps someone like @johnpoz may have an idea where to look.

cazz

@mer
Hi
I have look into Command Prompt and enter the comand date and there it show right time

Mon Feb 21 12:32:40 CET 2022

mer

@cazz
That's good.Firewall log, are you looking Status, System Logs, Firewall? Under Normal View or Dynamic View? Perhaps the entries are from before time synch happening.

I'm sure someone will be able to give better help than me on the why it's wrong in the logs.

cazz

@mer
I did have to do some hardware config with my proxmox server that also have pfsense so I did have to shutdown a few minutes.
When I did power up everything I notice now the firewall show right time so now everything works :)

Feel strange that I have to do a restart of pfsense :)

Thanks alot for all the help and support.