Default User wrote: > On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 13:48 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:48:28 -0400 > > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > Assuming you have network access close to boot time, you might > > > want to run an NTP daemon to get the time from a selection of > > > other servers. > > > > Concur. > > > > > > > > Debian runs a pool, which is configured by default in ntp-server > > > and chrony, at least. > > > > Also systemd-timesyncd, which is probably the easiest of these three > > to > > set up. > > > > > > > If I am running systemd-timesyncd on a single-user, internet-connected > computer, not needing to serve time signals to any other device, would > there be any reason to use ntp instead?
systemd-timesyncd, ntp-server and chrony are all supposed to speak the NTP protocol. Nothing, to a first approximation, uses any other protocol to set time reliably for the system as a whole. -dsr-