[CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

Thu Aug 9 21:30:09 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Russell Jones wrote:
>>
>> Here's a question: run hwclock, then, when you reboot, go into the BIOS,
>> and see what the time is.
>>
>
> 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.

Hmmm... and the BIOS doesn't have something that says use GMT? If not,
sounds like there's a configuration file *somewhere* that's saying use
GMT.

I'm out of here for the day. See if something comes to mind tonight....

      mark
>
>
> [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
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