Re: What package contains the time daemon?

[Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com>]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, John Hasler wrote:

> Systemd-timesyncd is not a replacement for Ntpd or 
> Chrony.  It is just an SNTP client similar to that 
> used by Microsoft.  It queries a single server and 
> does no error checking or authentication. 
> Basically, it replaces a cron job running Ntpdate.

A very helpful and compact summary, John, Thank you.


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