I've got a Fedora 7 (x86) system that started exhibiting truly bizarre behavior about a week ago. Basically, the clock stopped working. If I run 'date' it shows the date/time from a few days earlier, and it *never* changes. If I touch a file, it has the date/timestamp from the time/date in date output. The odd thing is that this behavior only happens when the system sits relatively idle for a long chunk of time (at least 24 hours). If i'm actively using it every day, then its fine. If I reboot, then the problem goes away (and the system has the correct time after rebooting). The first time that this happened was last weekend (Aug 18), and I had to reboot it last Monday (Aug 20) to fix the problem. Its now happened again. At this moment in time, date claims that its Sat Aug 25, even though its actually Sun Aug 26 right now. To make matters worse, the system behaves oddly when this problem occurs. I suspect its because anything that relies on getting an accurate (or changing) clock is failing. If I attempt to reboot cleanly, it just never happens. The system acts frozen in time. I've checked dmesg & messages, and there's nothing there. messages just stops logging anything around the time that the clock appears to have frozen. Anyone ever seen this bizarre behavior, or have any ideas what might be going on?
