Re: strange problem with system time

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does this happen with any other o/s installed?

did you set your time zone improperly?  ntpd may be changing the time on
boot, did you disable it, set the time and then reboot?  (chkconfig
--level 12345 ntpd off)


is your cmos battery getting flakey?

James Lemke said:
> I took an older machine (HP Vectra, P2-450, 128M, 10G, eth0=dfe530tx+,
> eth1=3c905b) and did a fresh install of FC1 on it.  I ran up2date and
> applied all fixes.
>
> The system appears to work fine except that the system time keeps
> jumping to approximately 4 hours before the current time.  This happens
> whether or not ntpd is running.  hwclock is fine.
>
> I tried setting the system to time to current time +4 hours.  The next
> occurrence still went back to current time -4 hours.
>
> The only pattern I see in syslog is that the jump always appears to
> occur when a message like the following appears:
>
> Apr 14 11:52:55 shoal kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa
> 0x45E1
>
> (This msg is always the first one with the incorrect time.)
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
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