Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:05:53 -0800 From: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: system time mysteriously changes Message-ID: <41D23B31.2030907@adelphia.net>
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I'm having a problem with my system clock. The time will be fine for a few days, then all of a sudden, I will notice that it has jumped ahead by a number of hours (usually enough to change the day to the next day). I can confirm that the time has changed on the system cloth in the BIOs setup as well. This has happened once every few days. I thought it may be a clock battery problem on the the motherboard, but I am thinking that this is not the case as the minutes are usually OK - it is just the hours/day that changes. Another idea that I had was that because I am dual booting windows (on occasion) and freeBSD, windows may be the culprit, but I verified that by rebooting windows, it is not resetting the system clock. Any ideas on what could be wrong ? I also have ntpd running, which I used as an attempt to keep the clock set correctly (in effort to find a solution to the problem), but it does not appear to be able to handle correcting the time. How can I debug who/when is changing the time on the clock ? thanks, -Kevin
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