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echo: rberrypi
to: JIM JACKSON
from: ADAM FUNK
date: 2020-12-08 08:34:00
subject: Re: rpi4 as server?

On 2020-12-07, Jim Jackson wrote:

>>
>> The classic ntpd does not like to sync with a time that is
>> far off from the local time. I used ntpdate to set the local
>> time before starting ntpd up.
>>
>
> Yeah I used to do that, but ntpd now has the -g option to allow it do an
> initial time jump, so ntpdate is no longer needed.

That seems to be the default config on Raspbian; I just found the
/etc/default/ntp file (which I've never edited) with just this line in
it:

NTPD_OPTS='-g'

Thanks for pointing that out.


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