Set Time and Date correctly using NTP service (timedatectl)

[heis2201]

Looks like Volumio2 does not enable NTP by default.
Noticed that time was not set correctly, so had to run
timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York and then
timedatectl set-ntp true

Maybe we should include the first step as an input field in the GUI and then enable ntp.service by default

[macmpi]

Would definitely be nice to have some UI in System pref panel to properly set date/time/timezone indeed, as great new timed features (Sleep and Alarm) are difficult to set without known time reference.
Seems UTC by default.
Thanks!

[xipmix]

See also #373

[heis2201]

Not a programmer here, so likely that I don't get the challenge described in #373 but

timedatectl list-timezones > export-tz.txt gives you a complete list of available timezones that can be used with timedatectl set-timezone ...

Why not have a select box with this entire list and upon Save timezone the selected string is passed on to a little bash script that does

1.) sudo timedatectl set-timezone selected_string.
2.) timedatectl set-ntp true

[biva]

Hello, I tried the above operations ('timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin'), but I get an error: "Failed to set time zone: Access denied"
I used the password "Volumio".
So I can't change the timezone: what am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

[macmpi]

how about sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata?

[biva]

Great, that works! Thank you @macmpi !

[macmpi]

but #741 (comment) is more systemd-friendly for setting this up in a future UI widget