updating clock automagically with crontab

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>]

Hi

For some reason, my system clock has gone screwy. I lose varying amounts
of time during the day.

I read these from an earlier post, and it works great, however, it's
beginning to be come a pain to su to root and run them every couple of
hours.

So, I was perusing my Unix System V: A Practical Guide and decided to
give contab a shot.

>From the man pages and the book, I've come up with the following set of
commands to get my system clock updated hourly:

# crontab
# 0 * * * * rdate time.nist.gov ; hwclock --systohc
# control-D

Will this work for updating my clock every hour on the hour? 

tia
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