After a long battle with technology, Dan <dan@dontspammecauseidontlikit.com>, an earthling, wrote:
> I'm setting up a Debian Sarge box as a mail server. What's the best
> way to keep the time syncronised? Should I run ntpdate as a cron
> task?

No. ntpdate is a utility that is in the process of becoming
deprecated.

Run full-blown NTP.

That involves installing the package "ntp."
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