change ntp server in 11.10

You alredy have an ntp address?
If yes all you have to do is follow this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html

so there's no graphicla tool now within ubuntu - there used to be one on the clock or in the date / time applet

hmm, try this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime#Time_Synchronization_using_NTP

this is a howto for an earlier version of ubutu - the time applet has changed and things aren't in the same place as they were, hence my quesiton.

So what version of Ubuntu are you using?

Ok it's written in the title, but why are you using a developement release? It can be dangerous...

Ok I've see in new version of Ubuntu but there is nothing. I think that the only way is to use the terminal..

11.10 (Oneiric)- Am using it in a VM for testing purposes and have no production data on it - have used ubuintu for many years and like to see what's in the next release so that I'm ahead of the game :-)

Am also helping to file bugs in oneiric and noticed that the time applet had been redesigned to the point where I couldnlt find the NTP client settings.

Have just realised that the ntp.conf file has been redesigned to use a special pool of servers within pool.ntp.org so this solves my problem :-)

Well, have a good 'experiment' with new ubuntu :)

I'm behind NAT, so the default NTP server pool doesn't work, and I don't understand how to change the time servers now, because I don't know which docs are outdated. Should I still edit /etc/ntpd.conf? Googling, I find references to various missing things: /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate, ntpd(8) and ntpd.conf(5), the old GUI etc. It's frustrating to have to waste time on a trivial setting like the time server. I also don't understand the solution posted here: "ntpd.conf file has been redesigned" — where is the file, and where can I read about this?