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Date:      Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:58:24 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to update the hosts clock as part of cron daily?
Message-ID:  <55EFA050.6020901@sneakertech.com>
In-Reply-To: <55EEE94E.4060906@gmail.com>
References:  <55EEE94E.4060906@gmail.com>

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> What is the normal practice to accomplish this?

Just turn on ntpd, it's part of the base system:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ntp.html

Don't mess with trying to run ntpdate from cron, that's a total hack and 
won't really work right.



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