> Put GMT (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock. > Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up > properly. Yes, this is generally considered the "right" way to run a *nix box. > Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to > automatically adjust for time drift, but I don't know what it is. xntpd (install the debian package). There's a list of time servers somewhere under http://www.cis.udel.edu/~ntp/ > netdate is the command I used to get the time on the net. Eg you could The equivalent xntp command is ntpdate.