On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:26:47 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote:

> We have a local NTP time server on the server in our LAN. It get's the
> time from some Dutch sites, and it spreads it around in our LAN. Should
> I get the Pi to listen to this NTP server? If so, how would I do that?

Everything you need is in one of these:

man ntpd
man 5 ntp.conf

The first two deal with setting up ntpd. I install ntpd on my Linux
systems as a matter of course with the instance on my house server set as
the default time reference for the others, but my other  hosts also
reference other time servers as well so there is no single point of
failure.

Or you can use ntpdate:

man 8 ntpdate

It is usually executed once at boot time but you could also run it every
few hours or days by a cron job. However, but its manpage says it "has
known bugs and deficiencies and nobody has volunteered to fix them in a
long time. The good news is the functionality originally intended for
this program is available in the ntpd and sntp programs",

So look at the sntp manpage as well.


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