On 26/07/15 10:45 AM, John Hasler wrote:
It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was "ntp".That is *an* answer. The full answer is that the Chrony and Ntp packages provide time daemons. Systemd-timesyncd provides an SNTP client which is probably adequate for most users.
Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife". :)