[ale] Time jumping forward on RHEL6.3

[Lightner, Jeff]

Oops - Thought I had mentioned that the hwclock time is correct.   The time that is off is the system time.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Sparr
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:20 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Time jumping forward on RHEL6.3

Have you considered that the problem could be with the servers themselves? Boot them to the BIOS, let it sit there overnight, see what the clock does.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Last week I noticed the time on two new servers we installed with
> RHEL6.3 had jumped forward even though we had ntpd running and use
> local time sources here.  I reconfigured ntp then with RedHat's GUI
> for same then verified the hwclock was updated (and not using UTC)
> then for good measure rebooted both to make sure the system time was still correct.

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