[CentOS] Time is Fleeting: CentOS 4 question

Chris Mauritz chrism at imntv.com
Mon May 9 01:04:33 UTC 2005


Bill Diamond wrote:

>I have recently built a new server using CentOS4.  I've found one major
>oddity: time resolution is completely whacked.
>
>I'm not using an external time source nor am I relying on NTP for time
>resolution.  For some reason, time on this server moves forward at a far
>more rapid rate.
>
>Right now, all my other systems show Sunday May 8, 3:19 pm.  The CentOS
>server thinks its Monday May 9, 3:54 pm.  I just reset it about four
>hours ago to the correct time.
>
>I'm using an inexpensive eMachines T6212 AMD Athon 64 processor and 1 GB
>RAM.  
>
>Can anyone suggest a reason why this server thinks it's 25 hours in the
>future and growing more distant with each minute?
>
>  
>

Sounds like it's got a defective hardware clock chip (not a software 
issue at all).  If it annoys you, you could always just get a new one 
(computer or mboard).  Or just set up a cron job to run once an hour and 
use ntp to set the hardware clock back to the correct time.

Cheers,

C




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