On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 10:42 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:07:05 -0400 > Default User <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I am running systemd-timesyncd on a single-user, internet- > > connected > > computer, not needing to serve time signals to any other device, > > would > > there be any reason to use ntp instead? > > NTP is a protocol, like TCP or UDP. One program that uses NTP is > ntpd, > which Debian packages in the confusingly named package ntp. > > To answer your question, probably not. I'm not even sure you can run > ntpd and systemd-timesyncd on the same computer. I have ntpd on two > computers here, both available as local time servers on my network. > Everything else uses systemd-timesyncd and uses the two ntpd > machines. >
Got it. That's sort of what I was thinking. Thanks!
