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The ntp daemon calculates the drift of your system clock and continuously adjusts it.
Determine the systems current timezone,
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If need be change timezone,
Install the ntp daemon,
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sudo apt-get install ntp |
The advantage over the traditional cron tab approach is less inconsistency in logs for when there are large time corrections. The cost is a little processing power and memory, but for a modern server this is negligible.
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