I said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:
no more hour from the network so I'm back in 1970
update: I have current date/hour again this morning, without doing anything.
When I installed 24.04.1 stable on 28 October, my phone started to display a current date in 11 July. I am not sure why (was it the date when the phone was built ?) It stayed this way (updating only the hour) even after I confirmed that the cellular phone was working by doing a successful call). After I enabled cellular data (why was it off by default ? maybe it was because I installed without SIM and added the SIM after install, but this should not happen in any case ?), my phone updated to current date. I assumed that it was getting the date from the cellular network, but it could just be from ntp in fact.
After that, I installed 24.04.1 daily, nothing to note from the date point of view. It was a new install after re-installing briefly Android to confirm some of the UT problems.
After updating the phone to RC according to the procedure in the topic, no more current date. The cellular data was on, the wifi was working, yet no date was set, I was still in 1970, only after disabling and enabling the wifi (this morning) could the phone get current date. I had noticed yesterday that I got failed attempts to update time through ntp in the system, but I had not thought it was important since I assumed that date sync was happening primarily through the cellular network.
I have again disabled the wifi, stopped and restarted the phone and yet the phone has the current date/hour. I have connected to the phone with adb shell and I have an initial time sync with ntp.ubuntu.com, so it has (I guess...) sync through the cellular data network, however in the log the date was correct before, so the current date has been kept and updated with an internal clock like it is done in a Pc. There are so many parameters, I am not sure of much now.