Clock issues

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:40 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Running a Dell PE850 with FC4 installed.  I used rdate -s to set the
> clock and the time is correct.  I even have it in the crontab tab.
> 
> When the machine reboots, the clock is wrong, way wrong by anywhere from
> 6 to 12 hours.  How do I get the clock to sync up at reboot time?
> 
> -brian
> 
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
> --
> > Those of you who think you know it all,
>   really annoy those of us who do! 
> 
> 
> 

I had a similar issue with a HP Vectra VLi8 about two years ago.  I
would get the time drift that you are describing while the machine was
up and running and also across a reboot as you are.  After many months
of frustration I tracked the problem down to APM.  I turned off the apmd
service and I turned off all Power Management functions in the BIOS.
After that all of my time drift problems went away.

Your PE850 is a much more modern machine than my old Vectra so I doubt
that APM is your issue but it may be worth a try.