System time while on vpn

Since I started using a VPN I’ve noticed my system time is out - displaying the time in the location I’m connected to.

Just wondering if I can set a time manually and override this behaviour? What do others do?

That’s a bit odd, since every time server repsonses with UTC time and you locale settings convert it then to the timezone you set on your system.

When you’re connected to the VPN, can you check timedatectl.

timedatectl is btw available only when enabling daemon + drift mode. Does network time sync work fine while being connected to the VPN?

/boot/dietpi/fung/run_ntpd 1
journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd

Sorry guys - my bad. After checking I realised that it was actually a timezone set in kodi that was causing the incorrect time. System time was correct. via timedatectl

Thanks again for your support and sorry for generating support noise!

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