[CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

Thu Aug 9 23:39:35 UTC 2012
Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com>

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 15:35 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 8/9/2012 12:33 PM Russell Jones spake the following:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am having an issue with some older CentOS 5.3 servers. Every time
> > the server boots, it gives the error "Cannot access the hardware clock
> > by any known method", and then promptly sets the time 5 hours behind
> > the hardware clock, down to the second.
> > 
> > After the system is up. "hwclock" works fine. hwclock --debug does not
> > show any error at all.
> > 
> > The hardware clock is configured in local time. /etc/sysconfig/clock
> > is set to UTC=false and ZONE="America/Chicago". /etc/localtime is a
> > copy of Chicago's zone file. /etc/adjtime is configured with "LOCAL"
> > as the third row. I am at a loss as to what is causing this.
> > 
> > Any assistance is appreciated! Thanks!
> > 
> Since you say "servers" do you have one that you can bring more current then
> 5.3 to see if there was a kernel patch or something that fixed this? Between
> 5.3 and Current (5.8) anything could have happened.
> 

What is in /etc/sysconfig/clock ?

 cat /etc/sysconfig/clock 
ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=false
ARC=false


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