Hmmm.  5 minutes every quarter hour sounds pretty excessive.

My Mac IIci used to lose several minutes per hour, especially when it
was busy (like, compiling a new kernel or userland).

Why are you averse to running ntpd?  I've got it running on the Mac IIci
and it works just fine.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, glenbo wrote:

> 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
> 
> 01100111 01101100 01100101
> 01101110 01100010 01101111
> 
> 
> 

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