NTP and hardware clock revisited

 

The solution, for me, was to search the web thoroughly, and find information.

I did and found the solution.

The hwclock service had been replaced by a link to a NULL. I removed the link and re-installed the hwclock service.

I re-installed the NTP service.

This is not all, but the NULL link was the key to solving the problem.

Local/network timing is now working.