Re: What package contains the time daemon?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 26 July 2015 05:09:37 CaT wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot
> > time, then ntp takes over.
>
> Unless I misremember, you don't even need ntpdate. Starting ntp with
> -g will do just fine (and it's the default config - I add -N). I don't
> even have ntpdate installed.
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I just:
# aptitude install ntp
after that it just looks after itself.

But that is for wheezy and earlier.  systemd is, of course, different.

Lisi