Automatic Time Sync on Gnome Desktop?

What would you do to sync time on your Gnome Desktop?
Gnome Settings for "Networktime" does not work for me caus it is deactivated after reboot....
All what i try to do with ntp does not work too...
Is there any "easy" way to sync time?

I am quoting from another thread:
wonder wrote:gnome-settings-daemon until gnome 3.4 used rc.conf to read and save the timezone in gnome-control-center.
now this functionality was dropped in favor of using systemd date dbus api.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140862
So network time will not work if you have  sysvinit and gnome.

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