ntpdate installed but time differs from nrc official?

[David Armour]

hello,

thanks for your message.
>
> for the most part, i've been v. happy with all things ubuntu. the time 
> display's one of those things that can seem trivial, until you look a 
> little
<snipping my own stuff>
>
> I've found that chrony is much easier to get working correctly than 
> ntpdate.  Since I have a 24/7 ADSL connection I removed the "offline" 
> paramater in chrony.conf and restarted after installing it.  It took a 
> few hours to make the initial corrections and after that it just worked.
"just worked" is what i like to hear. i've not heard of chrony. is it an 
off-shoot of cron? i'll have to have a look around.

although i'm wary of others "few hours" time estimates. they usually 
translate into much longer, in my world. :c)