What is the URL of the timer server used by Ubuntu?
The settings page just shows the radio option "Automatically from Internet", but it does not show the actual server URL, like in WIndows.
Your system will use Ubuntu's NTP server at ntp.ubuntu.com
by default.
To find what NTP server is being used, run:
grep ^server /etc/ntp.conf
If you get an error, then NTP is not installed. To install it, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo apt-get install ntp
Usually, ntp.ubuntu.com
. This is supported by example preseed files and the value used by the server and network installation methods (for which, the debug output shows ntp.ubuntu.com
as the value for the NTP server). To check the server status and time, you can run ntpdate
in debug mode (to see if there are other problems), or in query mode (to just see the time):
ntpdate -d ntp.ubuntu.com # Debug mode
ntpdate -q ntp.ubuntu.com # Query mode
ntpdate
command in debug mode: ntpdate -d ntp.ubuntu.com
. Or in query mode: ntpdate -q ntp.ubuntu.com
.
ntpdate is deprecated. You can use this command to get the status and see which server is being used:
systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
As already pointed out in SaTa's answer, this is now managed by systemd, with the systemd-timesyncd
service.
The configuration is in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
.
Use the timedatectl
command and it's variations with arguments to see all the info. For example:
timedatectl
timedatectl timesync-status
timedatectl show-timesync
The last 2 examples will show which NTP server is used.