On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Raymond Norton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:04 -0500, Erik Anderson wrote: >> "Local" in this case, refers to the VMware instance, not the host. >> >> -Erik >> > > Well, that clears up a couple things:) I had changed everything I could > think of when I could not get the time to stick. So, outside of using > vmware tool's time synchronization, what is a configuration that works > for most vmware server setups? I'd have to agree with Ron and Erik's suggestions: Set up a local NTP server that works off pool.ntp.org, and run ntpdate against it every 5 or so minutes. Ought to be close enough, unless the drift is absolutely insane. Jima