[CentOS] date differs permanent some 3450 sec.

Fri Mar 13 13:18:13 UTC 2009
Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com>

On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:24 AM, "Helmut Drodofsky" <drodofsky at internet-xs.de 
 > wrote:

> Hi,
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> the date jumps within 30 seconds to a wrong value. ntp service is  
> stopped at the beginning.
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> Whereas hwclock seems more precise.
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> [root at kerio ~]# service ntpd stop
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> Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
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> [root at kerio ~]# ntpdate 0.centos.pool.ntp.org
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> 13 Mar 07:04:48 ntpdate[23003]: step time server 131.234.137.24  
> offset -3450.678273 sec
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> [root at kerio ~]# hwclock
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> Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:04:59 AM GMT  -0.014767 seconds
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> [root at kerio ~]# date
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> Fri Mar 13 07:05:02 GMT 2009
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> [root at kerio ~]# date
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> Fri Mar 13 07:05:14 GMT 2009
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> [root at kerio ~]# date
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> Fri Mar 13 08:03:01 GMT 2009
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> [root at kerio ~]# hwclock
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> Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:05:37 AM GMT  -0.083628 seconds
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> [root at kerio ~]#
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> /etc/ntp.conf is in original configuration.
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> Remarks:
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> - most of our servers run without X-Windows, this uses X-Windows and  
> Gnome.
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> - the server runs kerio mail services. Even the original from kerio  
> configured VMWare server has had this behavior.
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> - stopping of keriomailserver does not help
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If your hwclock stores local time and your BIOS adjusts it for DST  
that would cause a 3600 second time difference or if your hwclock  
stores UTC and the BIOS adds an hour to that...

Turn off any BIOS DST adjust feature if it's enabled.

-Ross