How to resynchronize with chrony?

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Nfernandez picture Nfernandez · Apr 9, 2018 · Viewed 39.4k times · Source

I am looking for an equivalent of 'ntpdate IPaddress' command in the chrony suite to force chronyd to synchronize time right now.

Answer

Richard Green picture Richard Green · May 15, 2018

Try 

sudo chronyc -a makestep

This will update your system clock quickly (might break some running applications), using the time sources defined in /etc/chronyd.conf.

-a is needed to avoid

501 Not authorised error

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