Hello all,

We have a problem in the system with clock.

It changes madly like that:

zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:48 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:49 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:50 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:47 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:47 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:49 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:50 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:48 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:49 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:50 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 01:52:21 IST 2006
zion:~/lunies$ date
Wed Jul 12 00:40:48 IST 2006

We are using a GNU/Linux 2.6.8-3-686 Debian Sarge on a P4 computer (Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz).

Can please somebody help to fix this strange issue? It's crazy !

Thank you very much for your time.

You can try installing ntp. aptitude install ntp and have it update your system clock. If the problem persists, it might be a bios problem or the hardware clock is losing time somehow.

It might be a BIOS problem. You might try changing what timer you system uses (try using each and every timesource available on your system, e.g., tsc, pmtmr, hpet, rtc, etc.).

amimusa, did you ever get an answer to the cause of this? I have a similar issue.