The Wanderer writes: > The original question was "What package contains the daemon that > updates the time from a central site?".
> The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost > certainly the primary such daemon. The chrony package provides a time daemon that uses the NTP protocol and interoperates with ntpd. Note that NTP is a peer-to-peer protocol: the daemon and client are the same thing. BTW chrony and ntpd do not merely set the time. They synchronizes it with the stratum one servers using sophisticated algorithms to account for noise and propagation delays. Ntpdate is a simple program which merely fetches the time once from a server and sets the system clock. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87egjvzobf....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
