The Network Time Protocol (NTP) enables the accurate dissemination of time and date information in order to keep the time clocks on networked computer systems ...
To configure your Linux system as an NTP client, you will need to install the ntp daemon (ntpd). You can do this with the sudo apt-get install ntp command:.
The tool to query the status of ntpd is ntpq. What you are probably looking for is ntpq -p, which will list the current peers/servers, along with a bit of ...