One of the annoying traits old computers seem to have is that when the battery begins to die the CMOS clock slows down. This has happened with me on numerous occassions with different computers. With Linux you can set any computer up to use the Network Time Protocol to keep a consistent time no matter how old the battery is.

NTP is a daemon that continuously checks multiple NTP servers and calculates the correct time from them. This article shows how to setup the daemon on your computer with Fedora and Red Hat.

Now you really have no excuse for being late to work.

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