Set the clock on the dockstar

The dockstar doesn't have an RTC to keep costs down. If you're running Debian Squeeze (and you probably should be) then you can make the following tweak to /etc/init.d/ntp to use ntpdate (which you should also install) to set the time before running ntp.

case $1 in
  start)
    if [ -x /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian ]; then
      log_daemon_msg "Setting system clock with ntpdate" "ntpdate-debian"
      /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
    fi

log_daemon_msg "Starting NTP server" "ntpd"

Install ntp and ntpdate and insert the given if..fi block after start) and before the log_daemon_msg line for starting ntpd in the file /etc/init.d/ntp as shown above. Done and done.