From: Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de
the date jumps within 30 seconds to a wrong value. ntp service is stopped at the beginning. [root@kerio ~]# ntpdate 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 13 Mar 07:04:48 ntpdate[23003]: step time server 131.234.137.24 offset -3450.678273 sec
Not sure what is going on but maybe try ntpdate with -B...
JD