Byte Size Tips: How to Sync Your Linux Server Time with Network Time Servers (NTP)

Most servers are probably automatically configured to network time, but if you want to set it up for yourself, or want to change the servers that you are syncing to, here’s the quick article that shows you how to do it.

Since I had to do this earlier today, I decided it would make a lot of sense to write it down for the next time that I need to do it. Yeah, this article is really just for me.

First, you’ll need to install NTP if it isn’t already installed. For Debian or Ubuntu, that would be this command:

sudo apt-get install ntp

by The Geek via How-To Geek