On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, John Hodrien wrote: > You'd probably find that the following works more neatly: > > service ntpd stop;ntpdate;service ntpd start Yeah - I was having to do this each time I restart network (after bootup or resume from suspend) - which is annoying. Its beter to have the HWCLOCK set correctly - and then ntpd fix the drift over this (presumably correct) value.. Perhaps this is the installer (anaconda) bug. It doesn't set the HWCLOCK correctly - when 'Update time via NTP' option is chosen at install time. Satish