I understand the problems old macs have with losing time as described in
the FAQ, I just didn't think it would be this bad. I have a quadra 840av.
I set up a cron to run hourly with ntpdate:
     0 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s tick.usno.navy.mil tock.usno.navy.mil

I still noticed that my time was way off the closer I reached the top of
the hour. I upped the cron time to run every 15 minutes. Watching the
syslog it appears I lose more than 5 minutes per quarter hour. Is that
normal? Does it depend on system load?

I didn't really want to run ntpd, but would I be better off doing that? I
don't want to ntpdate every minute, but I would like to have decently
accurate time. I'm curious what other people do to maintain accurate time.

thanks,

--glen

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