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When you mentioned that your clock was never in sync, I immediately thought that it sounded like a motherboard problem. Sometimes, the battery powering the memory that stores your system's settings starts to go flat and a sign of this is the clock running slow.
Slackware Tips & Tricks by Jack S. Lai
Last Updated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:35:15 GMT
Time synchronization
Why do we want to ensure proper time? When investigating a security issue or reporting an issue, we want our logs to match our ISP's.
Create /etc/cron.daily/timecheck (Check and update the time from AOL.com which is close to me)
this will give you your current time according to the location of your ip add, and it works like a champ, i especially love the >7 day uptimes, after running this your screensaver will kick in because it thinks like 15 minutes has past during the time update
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