> > 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