[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#514318: Considering the removal of ntpdate

[Stefan Ott]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:45, Peter Eisentraut <petere at debian.org> wrote:

> Nevertheless, since ntpdate used to be quite popular, I figured I'd better ask
> here for objections.

I still use it when a system's clock is way off and I just want it to
be set to the right time, right now. I guess there are options to ntpd
to do that, so maybe a little wrapper script (telling the user about
the appropriate ntpd command, similar to 822-date) might be a nice
idea.

cheers
-- 
Stefan Ott
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