On 4/23/11, at 5:24 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahomiak at gmail.com said: >I'm running the latest update of Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac Mini >bought at the beginning of 2008. The clock is supposedly being >synchronized with an Apple timeserver acording to date and time in >System Preferences. However, it is at least 30 seconds off from my two >linux machines which are being set once an hour with the nist.gov servers. My iMac, using Apple's time server, seems to almost exactly agree (as close as I can tell) with the official US time that shows at <http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java> Go with that. Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ...................................................