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