NTP in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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This took me a little while to find the answer to…Hopefully this get indexed well for other’s Google searches…

How does Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later handle NTP?

16.04 LTS time sync appears to be handled by sytemd specifically “timedatectl”

timedatectl status
Local time: Wed 2016-11-30 17:45:18 CST
Universal time: Wed 2016-11-30 23:45:18 UTC
RTC time: Sun 2016-12-04 06:50:39
Time zone: America/Chicago (CST, -0600)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no

Config is

/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

More info here: Time Synchronisation with NTP

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