I dual boot with 2 different hard drives, so when i boot to another drive and boot back to linux or vice versa the clocks are always wrong, in windows i can update it because it syncs up with a server. But i cant seem to find anything like that. How can i make my clock display the correct time?

ntpd can act simply as a client keeping your clock synced with a server, and it can act as a server also. So if you have multiple computers on a LAN, one of them should query an internet NTP server, and the rest should query the first. Your distro should have an ntp or ntpd package available for installation, though it's possible it might be called something different. On Debian ntpd comes in the package called ntp.

There's also ntpdate (on Debian the package is called ntpdate also), which basically just syncs the date/time from an NTP server once, and quits. If your clock is really far off though, it will probably just complain and quit without syncing.

hey lurko you did great form the info he gave you no distro or machine no nothing. Then top it off he spoke about windows. You got my vote. and you need to be thanked for just being patient.

Well this is in the Novell/ Suse support thread I am running suse 11.1
I mentioned Windows to make the question more clear as to what i was looking for, no need to sneer ;D
I have managed to find what i need, xntp package needed to be installed. Great info and thanks for the help Lurko.

To be fair there's pretty much only one answer to "my internet connected computer's clock is inaccurate," no matter the actual cause of the inaccuracy, or the OS. Even on Windows the answer is NTP, only Microsoft named the config-tab where you set it up "Internet Time" and not "NTP Configuration" and fails to mention NTP anywhere at all (at least up to XP).

Glad I could help FLCL.