ntpdate installed but time differs from nrc official?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 09 June 2006 00:27, David Armour wrote:
> hello,
>
> synaptic says that ntpdate is installed, but the time shown seems 'fast'
> relative to the (canadian) national research council's official time
> signal, by about six minutes! any ideas why this should occur?
>
> thanks for any pointers.

ntpdate only synchronizes the clock when executed by script (e.g. at startup) 
or manually.  I believe you want to install ntp-server and ntp-doc (for the 
documentation).

Scott K