Why is the time not syncing?

I want the time to sync, but it's not. I tried running the following commands, but it's still not syncing.

# timedatectl set-ntp off
# timedatectl set-ntp on
# timedatectl status
                      Local time: Fri 2021-08-06 20:01:43 EDT
                  Universal time: Sat 2021-08-07 00:01:43 UTC
                        RTC time: Fri 2021-08-06 20:01:43
                       Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
       System clock synchronized: no
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no

Edit: More info

systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2021-08-07 15:26:10 EDT; 58min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
  Process: 9351 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)
 Main PID: 9351 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)


# journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd
1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
1]: Stopped Network Time Synchronization.
1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.

Running Ubuntu 18.04. Internet works and can browse the internet.

Apparently there was a directory permissions bug and it affects multiple distros. The solution is simple.

$ sudo chmod 0700 /var/lib/private
$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd
$ sudo timedatectl status

Also, this may or may not be needed:

$ sudo rm -r /var/lib/private/systemd

Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=233277

Why is the time not syncing?

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