how to update system time?

[Shantanoo]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:51 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter
<haimat at lame.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> first: hello to all FreeBSD users out there ;)
> After using Linux for several years, I want to try out FreeBSD for some of
> my servers now. I am coming from Gentoo Linux, so I am somewhat "used" to
> the ports system...
> 
> Ok, now to my first question: I am setting up my 2nd FreeBSD box now. On my
> first test machine I installed "rdate" (instead of "ntpdate"); I can
> update system time w/o problems there.
> 
> But when I try to update system time on the 2nd box now, I get no errors
> from rdate, but my time and date is not updated afterwards. When I try it
> with ntpdate (with same time server), I get the following error:
> 
> 6 Sep 15:22:01 ntpdate[330]: no server suitable for synchronization found

Is the computer properly networked? can it ping yahoo.com?
the computer is not able to reach the ntp server. try pool.ntp.org

Regards,
Shantanoo