On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard > clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is > set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init > system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in > the future.
You've had lots of other suggestions here, but I think this is handled fine if you add ntp to the default runlevel (and assuming the system can connect to the net). Stroller.