system clock runs fast

[Stephen]

The clock on my laptop runs a bit fast (no matter what OS I'm running on it, but it's been straight debian-style knoppix for a while now). Can someone point out a simple enough way to correct the time from a remote time server or similar?

Installing ntp and ntp-simple should do what you want you will have to set a time server in a config file and that should be it.

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The config file would be /etc/ntp.conf put the servers at the bottom.
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