RHEL with chrony test time servers

[hmcguy]

I am in an environment with RHEL v9+ servers. These are built with chrony installed for time sync. NTP and its associated tools are not installed. I need to be able to test for NTP servers in the environment without making configuration changes to /etc/chrony.conf. I am used to be able to use ntpdate -q <time server> or ntpq -p <time server>. Is there any solution with just chrony? I do not want to install ntp just to be able to use those utilities. I cannot make changes to chrony.conf in production.

 

[gbaughma]

Well, NTP would be the correct way to do it...
However... if you can fetch the current time (and you're not worried about exact accuracy) you can always set it with a
date --set="08:30:00"

You may be able to do a bash script... something like this?

#!/bin/bash
strTime = curl -s "[URL unfurl="true"]http://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip"[/URL] | cut -f16 -d '"' | cut -f2 -d 'T' | cut -f1 -d '.'
date --set=$strTime

(Note: I haven't tested this, since I use NTP... but the curl will return just the time)