Sync Your System Clock with Internet Time Servers in Ubuntu
Ubuntu has an easy way to keep your system synchronized with the internet time servers. This is especially useful on older computers that may have problems with the system clock losing time.
To enable this feature, first we'll right click the clock and choose Adjust Date & Time:
You should see this screen, where you can select the checkbox to synchronize the time:
Most likely, NTP support has not been installed on your computer, unless you had installed it before. Click the Install NTP support button to install it.
Your system should now start synchronizing the time with the time servers. If you want to manually sync the time, you have to first uncheck the "keep clock synchronized" checkbox, and then you can check the "Synchronize Now" button:
Pretty cool.
Is NTP resource intensive? Im hesitating installing it bc i worry it kills sys resources…
I decided not to use another deamon but to add a simple command in my startup script:
sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
It keeps my time uptodate via timeserver pool.ntp.org, maybe you should use a server from a location near you.
The command takes just 2 seconds to complete at startup, and it doesn't kill your resources.
You can create a cron job too if you like!
Thanks, this was just what I was looking for, your presentation was very clear. Nice work.