Linux Server Time Synchronization with Chrony

Linux Server Admin with Fexingo: Sysadmin, Bash, and Server Engineering · Jun 22, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode of Linux Server Admin, Lucas and Luna dive into the practical side of keeping server clocks accurate using Chrony, the modern NTP implementation. They discuss why time sync matters more than most sysadmins think—from log correlation to certificate validation to file timestamps. Lucas walks through installing Chrony, configuring it with multiple NTP pools and a local hardware clock, and tuning it for high-accuracy environments. He explains the difference between a client, server, and peer configuration, and shares a concrete example of checking sync status with `chronyc sources…