[CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

Thu Aug 9 21:26:51 UTC 2012
Russell Jones <arjones85 at gmail.com>

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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 at nod705 ~]# date
Thu Aug  9 11:26:12 CDT 2012

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