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.