Comment 3 for bug 83604

He! You are right, it does (didn't see it earlier when I wrote the bug report.)

Yet, syslog reporting is not working, because ntpdate-debian checks the settings in /etc/default/ntpdate and acts accordingly. ntpdate should log into /var/log/daemon.log (being exec'd as part the the init/upstart process). I wasn't getting any entries before a put a "-s" in /etc/default/ntpdate. So, you never know if your wallclock date was updated when your networking went up. (BTW, this works OK for desktops, but servers should really have other means of keeping time drift in check).