CEST time is not correct

Hi,
I have a problem with the time set on my Ubuntu 20.04 which uses chrony.
As you can see below

$ sudo hwclock --systohc
$ date
Wed 19 Oct 2022 09:04:03 PM CEST
$ timedatectl status
               Local time: Wed 2022-10-19 21:04:54 CEST
           Universal time: Wed 2022-10-19 19:04:54 UTC
                 RTC time: Wed 2022-10-19 19:04:54
                Time zone: Europe/Brussels (CEST, +0200)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
$ cat </dev/tcp/time.nist.gov/13
59871 22-10-19 17:06:38 19 0 0 388.9 UTC(NIST) *


The date command says 9 PM CEST while the correct CEST time on my watch
(Brussel time) is 7 PM. So, although the time zone is set to Brussels CEST,
the time is +2 hour ahead.


Below, you can see that chrony is running while ntp is masked.

$ sudo systemctl status chrony
● chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/chrony.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-10-17 13:09:20 CEST; 2 days ago

$ sudo systemctl status ntp
● ntp.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit ntp.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2022-10-17 13:04:47 CEST; 2 days ago
   Main PID: 1773 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

$ cat /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
pool ntp.ubuntu.com        iburst maxsources 4
pool 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
pool 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
pool 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 2
keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys
driftfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift
logdir /var/log/chrony
maxupdateskew 100.0
rtcsync
makestep 1 3

So, I was wondering why chrony is not correctly synchronized.
Any idea about that?


Regards,
Mahmood