[arch-general] Fwd: /etc/cron.hourly/ntp isn't working.

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:18 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> Maybe you want ntpdate instead of ntp. It's not daemon and it
> sysnchronizes clock everytime it's run.

Note that ntpdate will push a date/time change directly on every run,
which causes clock jumps. This is something you don't want for some
applications.
Openntpd will change time with very small corrections that aren't
noticable to applications. When starting openntpd with the -s option, it
will correct time in one jump just like ntpdate, which could be useful
on initial startup. After that, it will continue to correct time with
small steps.