Date and Time

Timezone

The default system timezone can be set by linking the timezone file to /etc/localtime:

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<timezone> /etc/localtime

To change the timezone on a per user basis, the TZ variable can be exported from your shells profile:

export TZ=<timezone>

Hardware clock

By default the hardware clock is stored as UTC in Void Linux, Windows does not use UTC by default and conflicts with Void Linux, you can either change windows to use UTC or Void Linux to use localtime.

To change how the hardware clock is read and written, change the HARDWARECLOCK variable in /etc/rc.conf.

NTP

To maintain accuracy of your system's clock, you can use the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

Void provides packages for three NTP daemons: NTP, OpenNTPD and Chrony.

Once you have installed an NTP daemon, you can enable the service.

NTP

NTP is the official reference implementation of the Network Time Protocol.

The ntp package provides NTP and the isc-ntpd service.

For further information, visit the NTP site.

OpenNTPD

OpenNTPD focuses on providing a secure, lean NTP implementation which "just works" with reasonable accuracy for a majority of use-cases.

The openntpd package provides OpenNTPD and the openntpd service.

For further information, visit the OpenNTPD site.

Chrony

Chrony is designed to work well in a variety of conditions; it can synchronise faster and with greater accuracy than NTP.

The chrony package provides Chrony and the chronyd service.

The Chrony site provides a brief overview of its advantages over NTP, as well as a detailed feature comparison between Chrony, NTP and OpenNTPD.