After recent personal linux/empeg update lessons and successes I've been re-visiting my old thoughts about using empwake on my player. After updating the DST files I noticed that the empeg's clock was waay out, having been set once and only once a few (short) years ago.

I know in the Windows world there are tiny applications that will reach out across a network to sync up the system clock with NTP.

I did some (brief) surfing around for such things for linux and found some info.

I thought, "How cool would that be if the player sync'ed the clock on boot-up if there were a network around?"

Does anyone know what's involved in getting a linux machine to sync up with NTP and what issues might be involved in applying this to an empeg?
It could be a fun first experience for me, but I'd need a little hand-holding.