On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Russell Jones wrote: >> >> 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 ---- something is changing your software clock. You might want to reconfigure time... yum install system-config-date system-config-date you might want to check for funny entries in /etc/ntp.conf (is it running?) chkconfig --list ntpd ps aux|grep ntp cat /etc/ntp/steptickers cat /etc/ntp.conf Craig