On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:40 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Running a Dell PE850 with FC4 installed. I used rdate -s to set the
> clock and the time is correct. I even have it in the crontab tab.
>
> When the machine reboots, the clock is wrong, way wrong by anywhere from
> 6 to 12 hours. How do I get the clock to sync up at reboot time?
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }
> --
> > Those of you who think you know it all,
> really annoy those of us who do!
>
>
>
I had a similar issue with a HP Vectra VLi8 about two years ago. I
would get the time drift that you are describing while the machine was
up and running and also across a reboot as you are. After many months
of frustration I tracked the problem down to APM. I turned off the apmd
service and I turned off all Power Management functions in the BIOS.
After that all of my time drift problems went away.
Your PE850 is a much more modern machine than my old Vectra so I doubt
that APM is your issue but it may be worth a try.
