> i set my clock last month on my computer, it lost two minutes in 5wks.
> do you think i NEED to replace it, or can it wait? (like till it really
> slows down)  it is in a machine that is 5 years old.

Only 2 minutes in 5 weeks is not very much drift at all.  Most computer
clocks (especially older ones) are wildly inaccurate anyway.  If you want
to keep accurate time, use an ntp daemon to keep your computer synced up
with an authoritative time source.  For Debian, I suggest doing "apt-get
install ntp ntpdate", for other distros, I suggest doing whatever it is
they use for that.

	--Nick