On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:36:31 PM Erik Christiansen wrote:
An ntpd is what kept my host within a fraction of a second for five years with ubuntu 10.04, IIRC, while the absence of it has the same machine several minutes off in a year under debian 7.8.0.
On debian, the first thing I've found (prompted by this thread) is the "ntpdate" package. Its manpage describes invocation in a startup script, i.e. it's an alternative to ntpd. (And won't act if an ntpd is running.)
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