chronyd - time sync / stats

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Chrony is a network time daemon (ntpd) that synchronizes the system clock with remote NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers, mainly in RHEL distros. Key component of Chrony is its command-line utility called chronyc.

Some useful commands:

 1# Manually time sync
 2chronyd -q 'server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org iburst'
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 4# Sync veryfication
 5chronyc tracking
 6
 7# List of time sync sources
 8chronyc sources
 9
10# Some stats
11chronyc sourcestats -v
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