Package ntpdate: Information

Binary package: ntpdate
Version: 4.2.8p14-alt2
Architecture: i586
Build time:  Apr 29, 2020, 07:10 PM in the task #250580
Source package: ntp
Category: System/Base
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Summary: Set the date and time via NTP
Description: 
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time
of a computer client or server to another server or reference time
source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides
client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to
a few tens of milliseconds on WANs.

Binaries was built with a source code under various free licenses.

This package contains ntpdate program for retrieving the date and time
from remote machines via a network.

Maintainer: Sergey Y. Afonin


Last changed


April 4, 2020 Sergey Y. Afonin 4.2.8p14-alt2
- updated License tag to SPDX syntax, changed to GPL-3.0-or-later
- added ntp-4.2.8p14-MD5-to-SHA1-default.patch (ALT #38300)
- added libcrypto with build version to Requires (ALT #38287)
March 23, 2020 Sergey Y. Afonin 4.2.8p14-alt1
- 4.2.8p14 (medium security update, look to "NEWS" file)
- disabled alt-compile-dirty-hack-NANO.patch
- disabled "make check" for ppc64le due to --gc-sections problem
March 12, 2019 Sergey Y. Afonin 4.2.8p13-alt1
- 4.2.8p13