I'm so excited! I got it fixed. I found:

I had to uncomment a line in:

└─$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

then I ran:

└─$ sudo apt install systemd-timesyncd

and

└─$ sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

and now everything works. I love google.

UNfortunately I learned I need to have prerequisite knowledge for the operating system (kali) (I wanted to learn penetration testing). I need to learn HTML and python.

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 8:06 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

this is stupid. The thing is updating.

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 7:39 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
well.... I changed timezone so that the clock on my desktop is accurate. It thinks UTC is the timezone I'm in and that UTC is 4 hours earlier

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 1:14 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
Wrong mike perhaps, or just asking me directly?

Either way, see this for time, use timezonectl to set your timezone properly for ubuntu at the os level (vs gui), and setup ntp. Should settle itself.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-time-synchronization-on-ubuntu-20-04 ## timezonectl use + ntp
https://www.howtogeek.com/782032/how-to-use-the-timedatectl-command-on-linux/ ## more verbose timezonectl troubleshooting

-mb

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 7:45 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
It seems that UTC was my local time and that it isn't accepting that now. (it was)
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