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From: Dan N 
Subject: Re: time server
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:14:02 +0900
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:15:14 +0000, Franz Fripplfrappl wrote:

> I've only had Ubuntu on this box for 3 weeks or so.  At first the clock
> was in sync with Internet server(s), not it's not.  In fact, the clock has
> gained nearly 20 minutes in past day or so.

I've never had much success with getting an ntp server going.  An easy
alternative it to write a cron task that uses ntpdate to update the time
at a regular interval.

Dan
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