Recently I tried to update time on the server and there was no way to use ntpdate because it was blocked and update raised the following error:
<p>ntpdate pool.ntp.org 6 Nov 21:18:08 ntpdate[23312]: no server suitable for synchronization found</p>
I used this trick to workaround the issue:
date; date -s "$(wget -qSO- --max-redirect=0 google.com 2>&1 | grep Date: | cut -d' ' -f5-8)Z"; date
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