Sorry for the ignorance, but I am still not getting this.
As per the instructions above, I load up my saved workstation, start up a new gateway, then run timesync in my workstation, and it fails to complete or even progress the timesync.
When running it in terminal I get this
[INFO] [timesync] Whonix is produced independently of, with no guarantee from, The Tor Project. Whonix is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. https://www.whonix.org
[INFO] [timesync] Starting to watch /var/log/sdwdate.log…
[INFO] [timesync] Watching /var/log/sdwdate.log…
[INFO] [timesync] Running “sudo service sdwdate restart”…
9075: sdwdate (not timesync!): signal SIGTERM received…
9075: sdwdate (not timesync!): signal SIGTERM received. Cleaning up…
9075: sdwdate (not timesync!): signal SIGTERM received. Exiting.
11757: Running sdwdate… pid: 11757 | LD_PRELOAD:
11757: sdwdate_preparation: who_ami is set to user.
11757: dispatching DISPATCH_PRE (SDW_MODE: startup): /usr/lib/timesync/timesync_pre --autostart --identifier “timesync” --progressbaridx “$ID” --mode “$SDW_MODE” --whoami “$who_ami”
[INFO] [timesync] Done, restarted sdwdate, which should now be running in background…
11757: dispatching DISPATCH_PRE done.
11757: SDWDATE_CURRENT_POOL: SDWDATE_POOL_ONE | array_length: 14 | allowed_member_failures: 5 | temp: 4.76 | array_length_remember: 0
11757: dispatching DISPATCH_PREREQUISITE (SDW_MODE: startup) (LD_PRELOAD: ): /usr/lib/anon-shared-helper-scripts/te_pe_tb_check
11757: DISPATCH_PREREQUISITE exited 2 | Tor Bootstrap Result: Tor’s Control Port could not be reached. Did you start Gateway beforehand? Please run whonixcheck on Gateway. | waiting…
At this point gateway is running, and running whonixcheck within it tells me that it is connected to tor. Still nothing in my workstation. So I power off gateway and restart it. Still nothing.
Now timesync in workstation says it has failed. So I manually set the clock, which at this point is only 1 minute behind the host clock anyway. Still nothing.
As I mentioned before, I have never had this issue until about a week or so ago. Prior to that I would load my saved workstation, start a new gateway, and the internet in the workstation would work straight away without any issue.