I was running ntpd locally on a server and wanted to check in on ntpd's status. ntpq -p was not producing any output even though ntpd was running.

# ntpq -p
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

This is because I had the option "restrict default ignore" set in …

So FreeBSD's time is out of wack. Two options:

1. ntpdate. This is manual. To run a time sync manually, just run

   ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org

You can replace pool.ntp.org with whatever you want. To tell it to run whenever the system is booted, add this to /etc …

To stay on time, you should really use ntpd. It is a daemon that runs all the time and makes tiny changes to the system clock. All you need to do is install ntp:

aptitude install ntp

after it's installed, I encourage you to go over to http://www.pool …