[Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:30AM +0800] Suresh Ramasubramanian :

> rdate -s some.time.server;/usr/sbin/setclock
> 
> in your startup scripts (assuming you are online all the time
  

For  machines/set of  machines  which are  online  most of  the time,  a
combination of ntpdate and ntpd is found very useful. rdate does the job
but compensation for drift is handled better by ntpdate and ntp. 

The use of ntpdate is optional if you're running the ntp package, it can
help a system  obtain lock if it starts with a  time that's pretty close
by using ntpdate before starting the daemon.  This is good reason indeed
to have both;  the init scripts run ntpdate first,  obtain lock and then
runs ntp which tracks and compensates drift.

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