ntp was Re: System clock.

[Kevin Brown]

I'm having a small issue with a server of mine.  I can't get it to sync to any
time server to help keep it correct.  Tried the command below, what I see is:

8 Oct 21:58:27 ntpdate : no server suitable for synchronization found

I can manually adjust it with date and then sync the system to the hardware
clock, but it very rapidly drifts (e.g. set it now, by tommorrow night it will
be 2 or 3 minutes fast and slowly increasing more).  Since I can sync my Windows
machines by using Worldtime, I spent a little time trying to find an NTP server
daemon for Windows that the linux machines could sync to.  Didn't find anything
that would work (guess I need to improve my searching skills).

I wonder if being behind a NAT router could be affecting what ntpdate is trying
to find.

> If you are on the net and have ntpdate installed, you can do a :
> 
> # ntpdate timex.cs.columbia.edu
> 
> and that will get you set against a time server.
> 
> Afterwards, do a :
> 
> hwclock --systohc
> 
> And that will set the cmos clock on the motherboard so that it now has the
> correct time also.