I run IceWM.  When ntpdate syncs the system, the clock on the taskbar pauses 
until the system catches up to that time and then just keeps going from there. 
I don't do anything special to recover it.

> Scott - thank you so much for that!! Saved me who knows how much time! 
> Now, I'm running ICEWM and it ended up stopping the taskbar stuff. I did 
> a restart via icepref, is there another way that I can add a restart to 
> the window manager? Or maybe I'll just schedule it for oh-dark-hundred 
> and it'll be taken care of when I log back in.

>> Here is the script that I use nightly.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo "Current date and time: `date`"
>> timehosts=ntp2.usno.navy.mil
>> if /usr/sbin/ntpdate -ub $timehosts > /dev/null; then
>> /sbin/hwclock --systohc
>> echo "Updated date and time: `date`"
>> fi

>>> 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?