system clock is too slow

[alan]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 6:45 pm, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> > ;/etc/init.d/ntpd start
> 
> I've been using ntp for a while..but I've been using ntpdate. I have it on 
> root's crontab and it runs like 6 times a day. My question is: what's the 
> difference..or is there any advantage running a full-time daemon(ntpd) vs the 
> ntpdate command?

How bad is the clock on your computer?  How accurate time do you need?