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From: Mario Hoerich <m@MHoerich.de>
To: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net>
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# Kevin Smith:
> 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). 

Does the number of hours vary or is it constant?


> 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.

Could you check which timezone the "advanced" time is displayed
in? Sounds like some application assumes -say- UTC instead of PST.

Obviously, even ntp couldn't fix that, since the time is
actually valid (just not your current localtime).

It's just a shot in the dark, though.

HTH,
Mario