--On Friday, March 04, 2011 3:04 PM -0500 "Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane" <todd.denniston at navy.mil> wrote: > Not if you are running ntp and it was able to sync, because ntpd > activates a mode in the kernel that sets the hwclock every 11 minutes > when ntp declares it got synced. Thanks, this is the part I was unaware of. So that obviates any need for a cron job.