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I'm really happy with my Pi so far, but now that the website I'm developing on it is starting to need the time and date, I thought it was about time to get NTPd working. So I installed an NTP server onto my Windows machine which acutally has a clock in it, and I got my network switch (which doesn't have an RTC) to successfully update its software clock to this Windows NTPd. Then I try and get the Pi to update... Not so successful:

[root@raspberry ~]# ntpd -ds
listening on 127.0.0.1
ntp engine ready
reply from 192.168.0.2: not synced, next query 655s
^Cntp engine exiting
dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed
Lost child: child exited
Terminating
[root@raspberry ~]# date
Fri Jan  2 04:01:00 BST 1970
[root@raspberry ~]#

So it says that my 192.168.0.2 (my windows box) isn't synced. Can I tell it to ignore this like my network switch must? Why doesn't it update the time?

Note: I can't get the Raspberry Pi to update directly from the internet due to the way my network's set up.

Thanks for any guidance..

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  • Not sure which ntpd server archlinux have, but see if it has the -g argument to allow you to jump the clock. Or see if the ntpdate command is available. Note that normally you'd want to run ntpd as a daemon. – nos Nov 4 '12 at 10:47
  • How long has your Windows machine been running NTP? – Jivings Nov 4 '12 at 18:21
  • The -s option should be forcing the clock to be set. @Jivings the NTP machine get shut down every day as it's my general workstation, so the NTP server's never up for more than 16 hours. – phillid Nov 5 '12 at 1:38
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    Related: NTPD not actually setting the time – Tobias Kienzler Dec 13 '12 at 16:46
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Okay, I managed to solve it. The problem was that the server wasn't fudging its stratum to 0 correctly, so the Pi was seeing the server as a stratum 16 and wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, thus the time wasn't being updated. I managed to fudge the server's stratum to 0 so now the Pi updated off it happily.

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Since the problem may be in the Windows machine, not in the Pi/ArchLinux, I suggest to try with working NTP servers. See http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome for a list. (Or http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ for a group of servers known as pool.ntp.org)

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    As I said, I cannot get the Pi to connect to NTP servers on the internet because of my network configuration. – phillid Nov 7 '12 at 2:05
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Windows does not support the full NTP stack, but instead just SNTP and is not typically suitable for NTP clients. You have to change a registry key to enable the W32time SNTP service to emulate the expected behavior of standard NTP protocol.

On the Windows machine, open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\Type. Change the key value from NT5DS to NTP

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