Hi,

the date jumps within 30 seconds to a wrong value. ntp service is stopped at the beginning.

Whereas hwclock seems more precise.

[root@kerio ~]# service ntpd stop

Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]

[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

[root@kerio ~]# hwclock

Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:04:59 AM GMT  -0.014767 seconds

[root@kerio ~]# date

Fri Mar 13 07:05:02 GMT 2009

[root@kerio ~]# date

Fri Mar 13 07:05:14 GMT 2009

[root@kerio ~]# date

Fri Mar 13 08:03:01 GMT 2009

[root@kerio ~]# hwclock

Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:05:37 AM GMT  -0.083628 seconds

[root@kerio ~]#

/etc/ntp.conf is in original configuration.

Remarks:

- most of our servers run without X-Windows, this uses X-Windows and Gnome.

- the server runs kerio mail services. Even the original from kerio configured VMWare server has had this behavior.

- stopping of keriomailserver does not help

Helmut