diff --git a/createlinks b/createlinks
index 4d082a6..0bfd5c6 100755
--- a/createlinks
+++ b/createlinks
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ event_link("conf-timezone", $event, "04");
 
 $event = "smeserver-ntp-update";
 
-foreach my $file (qw(/etc/ntp/step-tickers /etc/ntp.conf /usr/lib//systemd/system/ntpd.service.d/50koozali.conf /etc/systemd/system-preset/49-koozali.preset /etc/rsyslog.conf /etc/logrotate.d/ntpd))
+foreach my $file (qw(/etc/ntp.conf /usr/lib//systemd/system/ntpd.service.d/50koozali.conf /etc/systemd/system-preset/49-koozali.preset /etc/rsyslog.conf /etc/logrotate.d/ntpd))
 {
     templates2events( $file, $event );
 }
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ntp/step-tickers/00timeServer b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ntp/step-tickers/00timeServer
deleted file mode 100644
index df9ff47..0000000
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ntp/step-tickers/00timeServer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{
-    my $NTPenabled = $ntpd{'status'} || 'disabled';
-    my $server = $ntpd{NTPServer} || '';
-    if ($NTPenabled eq 'enabled')
-    {
-        if ($server =~ /pool.ntp.org/)
-        {
-            $OUT .= "0.$server";
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            $OUT .= "$server";
-        }
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        $OUT .= "# ntpd service is disabled";
-    }
-}
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ntp/step-tickers/template-begin b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ntp/step-tickers/template-begin
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/30clock b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/30clock
deleted file mode 100644
index de84f89..0000000
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/30clock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-    my $timezone = $TimeZone || "US/Eastern";
-
-    $OUT .= "ZONE=\"$timezone\"";
-}
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/40UTC b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/40UTC
deleted file mode 100644
index 121d86a..0000000
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/40UTC
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    $OUT .= "UTC=true";
-}
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/50ARC b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/50ARC
deleted file mode 100644
index cbc6620..0000000
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/sysconfig/clock/50ARC
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    $OUT .= "ARC=false";
-}
diff --git a/root/sbin/e-smith/systemd/initializedate b/root/sbin/e-smith/systemd/initializedate
index 7b28e81..8801dac 100644
--- a/root/sbin/e-smith/systemd/initializedate
+++ b/root/sbin/e-smith/systemd/initializedate
@@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-#first move old drift file if in the way
-OLDFILE='/etc/ntp/drift'
 NEWFILE='/var/lib/ntp/drift'
-if [ -f "$NEWFILE" ]; then
-        if [ -f "$OLDFILE" ];then
-                /usr/bin/rm -f $OLDFILE
-        fi
-else
-        if [ -f "$OLDFILE" ];then
-                /usr/bin/mv $OLDFILE  $NEWFILE
-        fi
-fi
 if [ -f "$NEWFILE" ]; then
         /usr/bin/chown ntp:ntp $NEWFILE
 fi
 
-# Run ntpdate so we're not way off on startup.
-ntpstep=/etc/ntp/step-tickers
-tickers=`/bin/sed -e 's/\#.*$//g' $ntpstep`
-#get current date (will need to update this command soon to be retired : ntpd -q -x -g -g -g -g
-/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -p 8 $tickers
+# force sync date and time
+/usr/sbin/ntpd -q -x -g -g -g -g >/dev/null
 # set hardware clock to the current time
 /usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc
 exit 0
diff --git a/smeserver-ntp.spec b/smeserver-ntp.spec
index 302d871..701100f 100644
--- a/smeserver-ntp.spec
+++ b/smeserver-ntp.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Summary: smeserver specific NTP configuration files and templates
 %define name smeserver-ntp
 Name: %{name}
 %define version 11.0.0
-%define release 5
+%define release 6
 Version: %{version}
 Release: %{release}%{?dist}
 License: GPL
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Requires: smeserver-lib >= 1.15.1-19
 AutoReqProv: no
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 17 2024 Jean-Philippe Pialasse <jpp@koozali.org> 11.0.0-6.sme
+- update package for ntpsec [SME: 12590]
+
 * Thu Apr 04 2024 Brian Read <brianr@koozali.org> 11.0.0-5.sme
 - Update createlinks to create smeserver-package-update event[SME: 12579]