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Author: Joel Roth
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] setting system time
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 05:43:29PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:10 PM Joel Roth via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 03:46:54PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > I have pointed duckduckgo at Devuan + setting system time and +
> > > setting hardware clock and am not finding any joy with the responses.
> > >
> > > How does one set the hardware clock so that it synchronizes with ntp?
> >
> > ntpdate-debian
> >
> sorry - - - program seems to no longer exist
>
> Thanks for the tip !!


I was wrong, ntpdate sets the system clock, not the hardware
clock. ntpdate-debian was released to prevent debian
installations from hammering the main NTP servers.

Probably ntpdate now queries an appropriate server by
default.

cheers

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Joel Roth