From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 05:06:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF21816A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9336543D45 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:06:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithcam@adelphia.net) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [68.169.225.230]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20041229050554.IBJJ1403.mta11.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:05:54 -0500 Message-ID: <41D23B31.2030907@adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:05:53 -0800 From: Kevin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041221 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: system time mysteriously changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:06:06 -0000 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