Ok I try that, but the thing is: * motherboards not that old * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time Jobst On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:31:55AM -0500, Brunner, Brian T. (BBrunner at gai-tronics.com) wrote: > > > and off course dovecot falls over too "Time just moved > > backwards by 39599 seconds." > > > > Now, 39600s is 11 hours, which is (inc DST) *MY* offset from > > Greenwich. > > > > > > So what am I doing wrong? > > > I have this problem when dead batteries on the mobo prevent the hwclock > from preserving the time. > Reboots don't show this (shutdown -r) but yanking the AC to fiddle with > switches on the cards (which takes pulling them out) or swapping > known-good with suspect-under-test gives me a boot-up time somewhere > back in August of 2006. > ******************************************************************* > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom > they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please > notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this > email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. > www.Hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated** > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- If builders built buildings the way Microsoft wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia