How to confirm/deny ntp is working?

[Kevin Kinsey]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Flecko <edflecko at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Ed> and changing them to read (I'm in the U.S.):
> 
> Ed>  server 0.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> Ed>  server 1.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> Ed>  server 2.US.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> 
> I believe this is no longer necessary, and in fact, discouraged.
> 
> The pool.ntp.org servers have some geolocation built in, so the stock
> version will automatically find and balance load on the existing NTP
> servers.
> 

Do we need to ping someone @freebsd.org about it then, say, kensmith@?

Just c'suped to 8 recently; mergemaster gave me a new ntp.conf and
this is the exact stuff in there ;-)

Kevin Kinsey