time and date

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:05 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 10:45 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I don't think that running ntpd is such a strain on resources that it
>> shouldn't be installed by default on both desktops and servers. The
>> problem with ntp is that, on Debian and Ubuntu, it's both a client and
>> a server by default.
>
> Fine!
> It is a no big deal to shut down INCOMING time and date requests
> via the firewall. The issue of security is extremely minimal and also
> trivial to handle via firewall.

There's no need for the firewall settings to be used. You can simply
change "ntp.conf" but that can't be done via a GUI.