Re: setting time

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Fons - as you noted you have a bug time delta to square away - I'd boot 
to single user and set the clock to be about right - then set hardware 
clock.

I would do something like :
date -s 'xxx' or as you suggested timedatectl --set-time 'xxx'
then
 hwclock --systohc --utc

After reboot - to keep clock correct then setup chrony (or one of the 
other time sync alternatives such as systemd-timesyncd or ntpd).

best

gene