Hello,
I’m experiencing a strange issue with my Home Assistant Green device where the system time is incorrect and appears to be about 4 hours behind the actual time. This caused a time-based automation (scheduled for 6:00 AM) to not trigger.
Here are the details of what happened:
- Automation did not trigger
I have an automation scheduled to run at 6:00 AM. This morning it did not execute. When I checked the automation traces, there were no traces for the scheduled run, only a trace from when I manually executed the automation later.
- Trace timestamps are incorrect
When I manually ran the automation around 7:00 AM, the trace showed it running at around 2:55 AM. That’s when I realized the system time might be incorrect.
- Time check in Developer Tools
I checked the system time using the Template editor:
{{ now() }}
{{ utcnow() }}
now() → 2026-03-05 03:12:32 -05:00
utcnow() → 2026-03-05 08:12:32 +00:00
However, the actual local time was around 07:12 AM in Colombia (UTC-5).
So it seems that:
• The timezone is correct (-05:00)
• But the system clock itself is about 4 hours behind
- System details
• Device: Home Assistant Green
• Installation: Home Assistant OS
• Timezone: America/Bogota
• Network settings appear normal (IP, gateway, DNS configured)
- Troubleshooting already attempted
I have already tried:
• Restarting Home Assistant from Settings → System → Restart
• Rebooting the host
• Verifying the timezone configuration
• Checking network configuration
Despite this, the system time remains incorrect and does not appear to be synchronizing via NTP.