My clock is 2 minutes and 5.2 seconds ahead

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Hey, my clock is exactly 2 minutes and 5.2 seconds ahead. I tried rebooting but it made no change.
im not sure what type of info is usefull here but here is some general info.

KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.9.11-3-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-5650U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 6000

Im on macbook air early 2015. i will be happy to give more info if requested. thank you

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Output of:

systemctl status systemd-timesyncd

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● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
 Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: inactive (dead)
   Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
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update: my clock is now 2 minutes and 6.1 seconds ahead. im not sure why its going more ahead now

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Couldn’t you change the settings from system time to automatic?

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im pretty sure i have that

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Run the following:

sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd

then

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Then, provide outputs of:

timedatectl status

timedatectl timesync-status

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Try in clock plasmoid ->right click -> ajust date and time -> set time automatically

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~ >>> timedatectl status                                                                                                                                                       
               Local time: Thu 2020-12-03 15:05:02 PST     
           Universal time: Thu 2020-12-03 23:05:02 UTC     
                 RTC time: Thu 2020-12-03 23:05:02         
                Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PST, -0800)
System clock synchronized: yes                             
              NTP service: active                          
          RTC in local TZ: no                              
~ >>> timedatectl timesync-status                                                                                                                                              
       Server: 3.121.254.221 (0.manjaro.pool.ntp.org)
Poll interval: 32s (min: 32s; max 34min 8s)          
         Leap: normal                                
      Version: 4                                     
      Stratum: 2                                     
    Reference: C035676C                              
    Precision: 1us (-21)                             
Root distance: 32.378ms (max: 5s)                    
       Offset: -2min 5.860948s                       
        Delay: 190.581ms                             
       Jitter: 0                                     
 Packet count: 1                                     
    Frequency: +0.000ppm

thanks for the help so far my time is now exact. any more i need to do or where you the solution?

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You should be good to go, now.

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