[CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

[Craig White]

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
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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