system time "slowing down" ?

[Wojciech Puchar]

>>>
>>> Why not synchronize by running ntpd?
>>
>> or rdate?
>
> sure if you  know the host you are using as a reference is itself reliably
> referenced!

on Technical University near where i live they attached atomic clock time
receiver (this signal is transmitted somewhere i don't know well this) to 
one of their suns, and it gives rdate and ntp protocol out.

i use it on all my servers.

of course - rsync may be imprecise because of TCP delays, but i don't need 
to have millisecond precision, precision below one minute is more than 
enough.