> I'd like to sync my PC's to at least one of my boxes on our local > network. In order to keep track, I was thinking of setting up my main > box to run a montly cron job to get the time from a stratum 2 server. > Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do? How have some of the > other list members done it? I use ntpdate once a night to keep my linux machines up to date. The time drift seems to be exacerbated on multi-cpu systems (my quad PPro machine falls off more than a minute a day). Only problem I had to overcome was getting the sync to go past the NAT box (the -u switch helps with this).