Ubuntu: Setting Date/Time using NTP Server

I am a user of Windows and I normally update Windows Clients’ time using the NTP server. On linux, especially Ubuntu, I am thinking how can I change or synchronize system time to existing servers. Luckily I found information on how to do this.

According to cyberciti. You must have ntpclient installed which is suppose to be installed by default. If not, try this command:

sudo apt-get install ntpdate

And if you want to sync the time, try this command:

sudo ntpdate your.server.address

Thats it, your Ubuntu linux time/date will be sync to the server address you’ve specified.

2 comments so far

  1. MichaelL on

    Thank you for this great tip!

  2. MichaelL on

    I would also like to mention that if your time still doesn’t look right after an update, you might need to change your region under administration, date and time.


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