The hardware time of day clock on my machine runs fast, I figured
I could take care of this by munging with HZ or TICK or something
like that. Can anyone tell me if this is the way to do it? (I do know
about xntp, but I really have no access to anything that I can set
the time from...)

Also if I use the date command (if my recollection is correct) the
command only changes the kernels idea of the time, and not the
hardware clock itself.  Is there a way I can change the hardware time
of day clock?

-Ram