Wrong date and time on Raspberry Pi running Domoticz

I recently booted up an old instance of Domoticz home automation software on one of my Raspberry Pi's with a PiFace interface. I noted that the time and date were out by three months and even though I had a valid network connection and pinging the NTP time servers was possible, the date and time would never update.

I spent about 40 minutes on Mr Google trying various things and this is what worked.

Login to your Pi using SSH
Ensure your Pi can ping a time server
ping 0.debian.pool.ntp.org
Stop the NTP service
sudo service ntp stop
Force a time check
sudo ntpd -gq
Restart the NTP service
sudo service ntp start
Check the date and time
ntptime
Should now report back the correct date and time?

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