Just discovered Debian doesn't sync to NTP by default

[No_windows]

Debian doesn't sync itself with an NTP server. I've recently been playing around with Virtualbox, and I noticed that the Debian clock was faster than my BunsenLabs clock. After checking my phone, it agreed with the BunsenLabs clock, so I figured that meant it was the Debian clock that was off. After some research I found that Debian is not setup to update the clock by default. I installed NTP and now it basically matches the Bunsen clock.....off by a split second.

I find it kind of odd that Debian isn't setup to do this "out of the box", given that time is pretty basic, and important. I use the clock on my computer, just to know what time it is, but then you've got logs on servers and such.

[fogpipe]

Yeah i find it odd that alot of distros arent set up to do this. Maybe it has something to do with locale or location.
Anyway including this in /etc/rc.local works

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ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org& >/dev/null

[No_windows]

Yeah i find it odd that alot of distros arent set up to do this. Maybe it has something to do with locale or location.
Anyway including this in /etc/rc.local works

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ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org& >/dev/null

From my reading earlier today it's better to use NTP, rather than ntpdate. Ntpdate is better reserved to machines that don't have a constant internet connection. I read a reason, or two, but don't know enough to really grasp it, However. I believe NTP is a service/daemon.