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 admin  Redhat  11 December 2014

To sync a correct time on your Redhat server with a NTP

publicly available time servers first you need to install
ntpdate package:

[root@rhel7 ~]# yum install ntpdate

To check your current time use date command:

[root@rhel7 ~]# date

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 Next, we can use pool.ntp.org timeserver to synchronize
our time. This is be done with ntpdate command:

[root@rhel7 ~]# ntpdate pool.ntp.org

11 Dec 06:08:13 ntpdate[2225]: step time server

Confirm that time hase been synced correctly:

[root@rhel7 ~]# date

Thu Dec 11 06:08:16 WST 2014

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