Can I synchronise local time with some NTP-server?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:55:39AM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> [ I'm CC:'ing webmaster at ntp.org so that he can add this as a "How to 
> get started" document to the web site. ]
> 
> On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:37  PM, Constantine wrote:
> 
> >Hello!
> >
> >I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP 
> >server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do 
> >not like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically 
> >synchronise the time with some available server?
> >
> >My server is located in the USA, in case one would like to suggest 
> >some good servers to synchronise with. :-)
> 
> I don't think that "read the man page" is a very good answer.  The man 
> page doesn't explain things very well (if someone would like to submit 
> what I write below to the maintainer, please do so).
> 
> 

Hi,

The man page are not meant for this, there scope is limmited to the 
command. Books and article are. In fact the FreeBSD handbook have a 
section about this.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ntp.html

Alex

P.S. Its a good article. :-)