That works. Of course if one is running NTP in daemon mode I *believe* it automatically keeps the hardware clock synced. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
Now that rings a bell ... yes, it's nothing to do with NTP per se. See man hwclock for more details ("Automatic Hardware Clock Synchronization By the Kernel") but essentially, the kernel has a mode that copies the current system time (which may have been set by ntp[date]) to the hardware clock automatically every 11 mins.
ntpd apparently turns this mode on (guess ntpdate doesn't?). Don't know how you'd turn it on manually ... the man page tells you how to see if it's /already/ on (which is actually wrong, as it uses a command adjtimex which RH9 seems not to have).
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