how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?

[Rick Stevens]

Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> 
>>but the "iburst" option, as useful as it might be, is meant to be
>>placed in the config file /etc/ntp.conf.  i was looking for an explicit
>>command-line option so that i could sync the system time *without*
>>having to mess with the config file first.
>>
>>as deprecated as "ntpdate" might be, it at least had the virtue of
>>being self-contained.
> 
> 
> 	Have yo looked at rdate?

Again, rdate is not the same protocol as ntp and they don't use the
same servers.
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