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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The symlink warning is unrelated, it's just cosmetical.

timedated is not an NTP service; it's not supposed to keep the time
synchronized. That's either done by "ntpdate" (which is installed by
default on desktops) or "ntp" (which you can install yourself).
timedatectl only does one-time time setting/querying.

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  systemd-timedated is not keeping the time synchronized

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I do not know if this is related to
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1409594

  In my system, 14.04 fully updated, the time is not kept in sync with
  network servers.

  When starting, I have this complain:

  Feb 11 08:47:51 pern kernel: [775910.071548] systemd-timedated[14157]:
  /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a timezone data file in
  /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

  But then no error is shown, and the setting panels says that I am
  using network time --- which is not true. After a day, if I
  deselect/reselect network time, I have:

  SYS: Feb 11 08:47:58 pern kernel: [775917.016524] systemd-timedated[14157]: Set NTP to disabled
  SYS: Feb 11 08:47:59 pern kernel: [775918.305488] systemd-timedated[14157]: Set NTP to enabled
  SYS: Feb 11 08:48:59 pern ntpdate[14170]: step time server 91.189.94.4 offset 53.842810 sec
  SYS: Feb 11 08:49:01 pern dovecot: imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 53 seconds

  ...so it's definitely not working. Any help/hint/workaround?

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