synchronize time

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/27/2012 05:36 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 02/27/2012 05:17 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am runing chrony
>>> chronyd.service - NTP client/server
>>>       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled)
>>>       Active: active (running) since Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:42:01 +0100; 35min ago
>>>     Main PID: 4150 (chronyd)
>>>       CGroup: name=systemd:/system/chronyd.service
>>>           â"" 4150 /usr/sbin/chronyd -u chrony
>>>
>>> but my clock is still not on time.
>>> How can I synchronize is manually (before I sued to do ntpdate time.server.
> I said SYNCHRONIZE not set time manually
>
>>>
>>> Thank.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> man date
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>
I understand that but ntpd (and possibly chrony) had a limit as to how far out of sync your system could get before it would not try
to sync with the ntp servers, hence you had to set the date/time manually first to a time within a minute or so and then start the
daemon and it would sync up.

Kevin