o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> Please - - - anyone for a short writeup on how to
> install/start/whatever else to ntp without using systemd?

A full HOWTO page on what to do to fix this easily for your system is
this one line.

    apt-get install ntp

Then best thing to do is to reboot so that everything can get started
off fresh with the correct time.

That's it. That is the entirety of what is needed in a HOWTO
document. Nothing more is needed. The default configuration will
start automatically in Beowulf. The default configuration will use
the standard pool of Internet time servers. That's it. Done.

Some special case situations though. Raspberry Pi and other machines
without a battery backed up real time clock. Machines forcing DNSSEC
at boot time without a real time hardware clock. But people running
on those systems should already know they are running on those types
of systems and do the right handling of the issues there.

Bob