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ntpdate is available and can be used to force the system to a standard time.
ntpd is available to maintain the system to a standard time.
It is only "depreciated" by RH/Fedora. Granted, ntpd causes laptop issues as it can keep a laptop from automatically suspending itself, and it doesn't recover well when the system clock is drastically wrong after resuming.
For any server, ntpd and ntpdate are quite useful (along with ntptime).
If I try to remove ntpdate, it will ask me if I want to remove ntpd because of dependencies. So does it mean that I shouldn't ? Or can I use rpm -e --nodeps ?
My question is more of a best practise question being quite new to linux. Thanks for teaching me.
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