Dave Platt wrote:
You may be able to resolve the problem by using the NTP daemon
(available in most distributions). It has two benefits:

- It can set, and resynchonize the system clock via periodic queries of
highly-stable time servers, via the Internet. This gives you a
very reliable time-sync to start with.

- It can calculate the amount of "drift" that your system's local
clock has (by comparing the system clock-run rate against the rate
deduced by querying NTP servers), and can then instruct the kernel
to compensate for this drift (i.e. "tweaking" the kernel's own
clock-update algorithm). This compensation helps keep the clock
correct, in between the larger adjustements that the NTP daemon
makes when it queries Internet time servers.


Thanks for the advice Dave, I started ntpd and will see how that
works.