ntpdate installed but time differs from nrc official?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 09 June 2006 20:08, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2006, at 2:01 PM, David Armour wrote:

> >> 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)
>
> No, it is not related to cron but works in a similar manner as ntp
> (as a daemon).  It is targeted at systems which are not on all the
> time, but works fine otherwise also.  All of my systems are within <
> 1 sec. of my WWVB "atomic" clock.

Back a couple of messages... What do you mean by much easier than ntpdate?  To 
get ntp-server working I had to apt-get it and (optionally) change one line 
in the config file.  That was it.  I'm having a hard time imagining what 
would be much easier than that.

Scott K