NTP for fixed IP Pi5 installation

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I’ve done some reading on this and the search results that came back, of which there were plenty, seem to go around a little… so I thought I’d ask because I’m scratching my head a little and some of my assumptions could be wrong.

Firstly, I’m running on a Pi5. I believe that HA is running in a container, even on the Pi. I’ve checked the network options and for fixed IP, there is no entry for NTP. I’ve SSH’d to the box but being in a container I need to get to the underlying OS. Typing login results in being asked for a user name and password, but I’m not sure what to use as I only gave a password to the HA installation.

There is a plugin called Chrony but I’d like to get this sorted on the Pi host if possible because I’m presuming that Chrony won’t be able to get to the underlying OS.

Grateful for advice please.

EDIT - The Pi does have access to time.cloudflare.com but I’m presuming this is only done at boot time?

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OK - so apparently login at the HA prompt on the console of the Pi doesn’t require a password.

The /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf has the fallback un-commented (hence active) and one entry to time.cloudflare.com

Checking this with timedatectl shows that NTP is active.

So… after driving myself slightly batty reading all those posts, it appears that HA for the Pi host OS is already set with NTP up and running… allbeit with just one NTP server.