Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Russell Jones wrote:

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Here's a question: run hwclock, then, when you reboot, go into the BIOS, and see what the time is.

 mark

Thanks Mark. "hwclock" showed the right time before reboot. After reboot, entering BIOS it still showed the correct local time. After the server came up, "date" is slow by 5 hours.

[root@nod705 ~]# date Thu Aug 9 11:26:12 CDT 2012

[root@nod705 ~]# hwclock Thu 09 Aug 2012 04:26:15 PM CDT -0.002574 seconds

---- something is changing your software clock.

You might want to reconfigure time...

yum install system-config-date system-config-date

you might want to check for funny entries in /etc/ntp.conf (is it running?) chkconfig --list ntpd ps aux|grep ntp

cat /etc/ntp/steptickers cat /etc/ntp.conf

Craig