4.5.9. ntp¶

The Network Time Protocol (ntp) is a networking protocol for the synchronization of clocks of computer systems over networks. NTP is providing the information in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

Login your FSL Test bench to check if you have connections to ntp servers.:

# ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*ds1789963.dedic 192.53.103.103   2 u    1   64    1   16.390    2.484   0.674
 ns1.pmodwrc.ch  189.247.1.117    2 u    2   64    1   19.949    0.255   0.502
 ntppublic.uzh.c 130.60.205.7     3 u    1   64    1   16.315    2.361   0.341
 aerith.projectd 217.147.208.1    3 u    2   64    1   22.728   -0.846   0.022

Sync your clock with the Fedora Security Lab Test Bench:

$ sudo ntpdate 10.0.0.65
16 Aug 10:56:08 ntpdate[30588]: adjust time server 10.0.0.65 offset 0.002292 sec

Unless an error message is displayed, the system time of your local system should now be set.

Note

It was not tested if this works without a connection to the internet.