On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote: > Been awhile since I had to mess with this but I seem to remember there > was a bios clock setting on some systems. Maybe the newer systems don't > have this but it sounds to me as if when you boot your system the system > clock is being set from the hardware clock. If that is off (different > timezone or does/doesn't have DST set) then your system would startup > with the wrong time. I guess you missed the earlier part of the thread. Doing the following from system-config-time appears to fix this issue: diable-ntpd;set-correct-time;enable-ntpd > If it is to far off then ntp will not correct it. Actually mine was off by 12:hours - and ntpd was correcting it. (suspend/resume was pushing it back again by 12hours) > Check if your system has such a setting in the bios. If you can get > that close enough then ntp should be able to take that time and adjust > the drift. After the fix - all times appear to be the same (not sure what the states were before the fix): - bios time - WinXP - FC3 Satish