If you’re like me and use your computer a lot it’s important that the clock be accurate. My PC clock was 10 minutes slow excuse does not really cut it at school and work.
So what do you do?
Easy!
Right click on the clock and click “Adjust Date & Time” enter your password and you get the “Time and Date Settings” window. From there make sure the “Periodically synchronize click with Internet servers” box is marked and then if you want to use a specific server click “Select Servers” otherwise you can click OK. The default server is is ntp.ubuntu.com and 127.127.1.0. If you do not have ntp support installed it will ask to install it when you click the checkbox installed above. Once it finishes installing you can close the time and date settings and reopen it. It will now be checked and running.
Once that is all completed you can verify that ntpd (The process that handles Network Time Protocol) is running by opening a terminal window and doing
ps -ef | grep ntp
Now that you have this accurate clock it may be time to go around the house and get everything adjusted!