diff --git a/dom0/aux-tools/keep-dom0-clock-synced b/dom0/aux-tools/keep-dom0-clock-synced
deleted file mode 100755
index b3c3d4e9..00000000
--- a/dom0/aux-tools/keep-dom0-clock-synced
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# 15m
-UPDATES_SLEEP=900
-UPDATES_VM=`qvm-get-updatevm`
-
-QREXEC_CLIENT=/usr/lib/qubes/qrexec_client
-
-if [ -z "$UPDATES_VM" ]; then
-    echo "UpdateVM not set, exiting!" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "Waiting for UpdateVM to be started"
-# Intentionally used xl domid here to check if domain is running (in case of
-# eg. stale qrexec socket)
-while ! [ -S /var/run/qubes/qrexec.`xl domid "$UPDATES_VM" 2>/dev/null` ]; do
-    sleep 1
-done
-
-(
-# Allow only one instance
-flock --nonblock -s 200 || exit 1
-while true; do
-    qvm-sync-dom0-clock
-
-    sleep $UPDATES_SLEEP
-done
-
-
-) 200> /var/run/qubes/clock-watch-lock
diff --git a/dom0/aux-tools/qubes-sync-clock.cron b/dom0/aux-tools/qubes-sync-clock.cron
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..95c9d33f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dom0/aux-tools/qubes-sync-clock.cron
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*/6 * * * * root /usr/bin/qvm-sync-clock > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
diff --git a/dom0/init.d/qubes_core b/dom0/init.d/qubes_core
index 08e61bb0..26ca4189 100755
--- a/dom0/init.d/qubes_core
+++ b/dom0/init.d/qubes_core
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ start()
     MEMINFO_DELAY_USEC=100000
     /usr/lib/qubes/meminfo-writer $MEM_CHANGE_THRESHOLD_KB $MEMINFO_DELAY_USEC &
 
-    /usr/lib/qubes/keep-dom0-clock-synced > /var/log/qubes/dom0-clock-sync.log 2>&1 &
-
     touch /var/lock/subsys/qubes_core
     success
     echo
diff --git a/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-sync-dom0-clock b/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-sync-dom0-clock
deleted file mode 100755
index 2a4d09a7..00000000
--- a/dom0/qvm-tools/qvm-sync-dom0-clock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-CLOCK_VM=`qvm-get-clockvm`
-
-QREXEC_CLIENT=/usr/lib/qubes/qrexec_client
-
-if [ -z "$CLOCK_VM" ]; then
-    echo "ClockVM not set, exiting!" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if ! xl domid "$CLOCK_VM" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-    echo "ClockVM not started, exiting!" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# dd is supposed to not allow memory exhaustion
-# grep does basic sanity checking
-# there seems to be no way to pass output of date +%s.%N to date,
-# so we use human-readable format
-
-CURRENT_TIME="$($QREXEC_CLIENT -d $CLOCK_VM 'user:date -u' |
-	dd count=1 2>/dev/null |
-	grep '^[A-Za-z]* [A-Za-z]* [ 0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] [A-Z]* [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$'|
-	head -1)"
-
-if [ -n "$CURRENT_TIME" ] ; then 
-	echo Syncing Dom0 clock: setting time "$CURRENT_TIME"...
-	sudo date -u -s "$CURRENT_TIME" ;
-	echo Done. >&2
-else
-	echo "Error while parsing the time obtained from the ClockVM ($CLOCK_VM).." >&2
-fi
-
diff --git a/rpm_spec/core-dom0.spec b/rpm_spec/core-dom0.spec
index da8a001c..2f2cac58 100644
--- a/rpm_spec/core-dom0.spec
+++ b/rpm_spec/core-dom0.spec
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ cp ../qrexec/qrexec_client $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp ../qrexec/qrexec_policy $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp aux-tools/qfile-dom0-unpacker $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp aux-tools/qubes-receive-updates $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
-cp aux-tools/keep-dom0-clock-synced $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp ../misc/block_add_change $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp ../misc/block_remove $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
 cp ../misc/block_cleanup $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qubes/
@@ -122,6 +121,7 @@ cp aux-tools/qubes.ReceiveUpdates.policy $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/qubes_rpc/policy/qu
 cp aux-tools/qubes.ReceiveUpdates $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/qubes_rpc/
 install -D aux-tools/qubes-dom0.modules $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/sysconfig/modules/qubes-dom0.modules
 install -D aux-tools/qubes-dom0-updates.cron $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/cron.daily/qubes-dom0-updates.cron
+install -D aux-tools/qubes-sync-clock.cron $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/cron.d/qubes-sync-clock.cron
 
 cp restore/qvm-create-default-dvm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
 cp restore/xenstore-watch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/xenstore-watch-qubes
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ fi
 /usr/lib/qubes/block_remove
 /usr/lib/qubes/block_cleanup
 %attr(4750,root,qubes) /usr/lib/qubes/qfile-dom0-unpacker
-/usr/lib/qubes/keep-dom0-clock-synced
 %attr(770,root,qubes) %dir /var/lib/qubes
 %attr(770,root,qubes) %dir /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates
 %attr(770,root,qubes) %dir /var/lib/qubes/appvms
@@ -382,6 +381,7 @@ fi
 /etc/security/limits.d/99-qubes.conf
 /etc/udev/rules.d/99-qubes_block.rules
 /etc/cron.daily/qubes-dom0-updates.cron
+/etc/cron.d/qubes-sync-clock.cron
 /etc/dracut.conf.d/*
 %dir /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/90qubes-pciback
 /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/90qubes-pciback/*