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.

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