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#11
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
You have to issue the command manually, and the command is superseeded by rdate.
hmm, are you sure that ntpdate has been superseded by rdate? As far as I know it's the other way around: rdate has been replaced by ntpdate.

The reason being that rdate changes the date/time immediately, whereas ntpdate will drift the clock gently until the correct date/time has been reached (for a delta t not too large), in order to not break some software that doesn't like having the time change abruptly.
 
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Originally Posted by jgombos View Post
That man page doesn't give scheduling options. Where do I find the scheduling configuration?
AFAIK there aren't scheduling options, it will just keep the time synchronized.
From the project goals page

Current NTP daemons are complex and difficult to configure and/or have questionable licenses.
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Our goal is to make NTP ubiquitous by providing a free simple implementation that is secure and easy to configure.
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Try to "Just Work" in the background.
 

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Originally Posted by lorelei View Post
The reason being that rdate changes the date/time immediately, whereas ntpdate will drift the clock gently until the correct date/time has been reached (for a delta t not too large), in order to not break some software that doesn't like having the time change abruptly.
The openbsd portable version doesn't have an rdate (edit: or ntpdate) command. You just invoke the daemon with the -s option and it will adjust the time at start-up, then it will adjust it while it is running.
 

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#14
Here's the package for Maemo 5:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/openntpd/

or:
sudo gainroot
apt-get install openntpd
ntpd -s
 
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#15
i use ntpdate from http://home.mminternet.com/delaroca/index.html/

works nicely from the commandline.
 
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