Set Time Mac Terminal
Just curious, for those of you who use ntp servers on your network, how do you instruct your Mac OS X clients to sync their time/date with the ntp server?
Example: You know you have a time drift (i.e.; clock skew too great) on one of your Mac workstations and therefore your user is getting Kerberos errors. You cant reach the Mac physically (or you are too lazy like me), thus you need to sync the Mac's time/date via the cli over a ssh session. Do you use...
A) ntpdate?
B) ntpd -q?
C) systemsetup <-some option>
I prefer B personally, but Im curious how you guys do it.
I never understood the difference between ntpd -g and ntpd -q, so I always just use the -q option.
I think ntpdate is deprecated, but Im not positive.
I thought that one of the Apple 'systemsetup' commands would poll a ntp server and sync accordingly, but I cant find the proper option. Not sure.
Manual Set Time From Terminal On Mac And Cheese
Linking your Mac's clock to a time server will sync the time on your mac with a server. If you are using Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, you're probably automatically synced to Apple's time server, which is time.apple.com. But you can also set up a time server so your clock will be set to your office's time, or maybe your college's time (many colleges have. Jul 12, 2015 How to Set Up Time Machine Backups in Mac OS X. I like to say that someone generally wants an external drive for backups that is at least twice the size of the internal drive if not larger, because the larger the external drive the more time machine ‘snapshots’ from different points in time can be backed up and referenced.