Time synchronization using NTP

I've been having some trouble getting the system clock to sync. with time servers using ntpd. The method that works at the moment is the use of the CLI utility ntpdate:

[darkknight@darkworld ~]$ sudo su -
[root@darkworld ~]# ntpdate time.nist.gov
27 Dec 12:25:17 ntpdate[5743]: adjust time server 192.43.244.18 offset 0.002806 sec
[root@darkworld ~]#

Unfortunately, the man page of ntpdate says that it's set to be removed from the distro. -- hopefully ntpd will work again once that happens.

[Update] It seems the ntpd daemon was missing. The RPM was installed but the daemon was no longer in /usr/sbin/. So, I reinstalled the ntp package and now time sync. works as is should.