[CentOS] curious reboot output

Sun Jan 23 03:49:18 UTC 2011
Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:40:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello list!
>>
>>  I was just curious about the output of a command I typed.
>>
>> [root at LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1
>> reboot   system boot  2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03         (24+01:33)
>>
>>
>> This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) in
>> mid afternoon. Just curious how the output of this command could NOT
>> know this?
>
> What was the hw clock set to on reboot?
>

When it's almost a month off, is this really relevant?  I could see a
timezone discrepancy making this relevant, maybe, but not three weeks.