On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0600, Jim Kaufman wrote: > What I like to do is run a cron job daily that sets my system time. that > is, I have this in root's crontab: > > 30 6 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate time.nist.gov At that point, you'd really be better off just running ntpd instead... > You can run this anytime you want as root and your system time will be > correct. To copy this time to your hardware clock, type this: > > hwclock --systohc > > Check out 'hwclock --help' for more info on that utility. I'm fairly certain that ntpdate also updates the hardware clock without requiring the extra step. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery