time and date

[JD]

On 01/16/2013 07:04 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2013, 15:07 -0700 schrieb JD:
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>> To add insult to injury, the DVD media from which it is installed
>> did not install the ntp package. I had to install it manually.
> ubuntu installs ntpdate by default since years, it checks (and corrects)
> the time while establishing a network connection.
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> why would you ship an ntp server on a desktop default install ?
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>
Because ntpdate runs once.
It is not a daemon.
System load can make the clock fall back.
So ntpd always automatically corrects time.

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