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> What is the normal practice to accomplish this?

Just turn on ntpd, it's part of the base system:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ntp.html

Don't mess with trying to run ntpdate from cron, that's a total hack and 
won't really work right.