This one comes from a message posted by "Fred" to OmniGroup's "Mac OS X Admin" mailing list. He notes that if you open OSX's Date and Time system preferences panel and specify a time server to be used to keep the system clock synchronized, the built-in copy of ntpd will be started locally, which will enable other machines on the network to get correct time from your OSX machine.
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