Still with the latest OMV 3.x images, I find that the clock source synchronisation is still being accomplished with the NTP daemon rather then with the "timedated" daemon.
Below describes the steps to remove the setup of the legacy NTP configuration, and setup the new light weight “system-timedated” configuration to synchronise your system’s clock from the network source.
First shutdown the NTP daemon process(es), disable the auto-start setup and deinstall the packages with the following commands on the shell prompt:
sudo systemctl stop ntp
sudo systemctl disable ntp
sudo apt-get -y remove ntp
sudo rm -f /etc/init.d/ntp
sudo rm -f /etc/default/ntp
sudo rm -f /etc/rc?.d/{S,K}??ntp
sudo rm -f /etc/ntp.conf
sudo rm -f /etc/cron.daily/ntp
sudo rm -f /var/log/ntpstats
With your favourite text editor, modify the file “/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf” to have the similar contents as follows:
[Time]
NTP=0.europe.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org
FallbackNTP=0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org
You may choose the NTP sources according to your region as described with the NTP Sources article.
With your favourite text editor, modify the file “/etc/rc.local” to include the followoing line contents:
[ ! -e /var/lib/systemd/clock -a "`systemctl is-active systemd-timesyncd | grep -i active`" ] && timedatectl set-ntp 1 > /dev/null 2>&1
sleep 2
Note: The back-quote in the "systemctl" command and the "sleep" statement are very important to keep!
Now, to enable the automatic start-up of the system’s clock synchronisation during boot-up using the "systemd-timesyncd" service, execute the following commands on the shell prompt:
sudo systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd
sudo systemctl start systemd-timesyncd
sudo timedatectl set-ntp 1
With this approach, we leave it up to the “systemd” PID 1 daemon to start up the relevant services for date and time synchronisation from the network during boot up.
To verify its proper operation, after a little while, simply execute the following command on the shell prompt:
timedatectl
It shall provide an output similar to the following:
Local time: Wed 2017-03-18 09:44:46 CET
Universal time: Wed 2017-03-18 08:44:46 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2017-03-18 08:44:46
Time zone: … (CET, +0100)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
Hope, you find this useful and above can be incorporated in the next OMV 3.0 image update...