I'm running RedHat Fedora Core. The hardware clock is correct (running hwclock --show yields the correct date and time and the correct time zone).

When I run date, the system date and time zone are correct, but the time is off by many hours (about 11hrs early).

This happened a while ago and I had to re-set the system clock then, but it's back to being way off again.

The NTP Daemon doesn't appear to be running:

# ps -ax | grep ntpd

... yields nothing.

What else could be screwing with my system time?

Thanks in advance,

Antun

check whether you have set the timezone to GMT.

If you do not wish to run ntpd, you can

#ntpdate -u <time server>

clock.redhat.com or ntp1.sp.se can be your timeservers.

I'm not in GMT, I'm in PST. Both the hardware and the OS clock seem to be set to PST.

I don't mind having ntpd running. What I don't understand is if it's not running, what else could have messed the time up? Can a system clock creep off by 11 hours over a period of less than a month?

-Antun

are you on a laptop?

does it creep off to random times? (or just stay 11 hours off?)

It's not a laptop; it's a server.

It has done this once before, and I remember that last time I had to reset it it was way off. I haven't been monitoring it closely.

-Antun

Is there a solution to this?

My system clock always crawls away from the correct time. The hwclock seems close enough to being called correct.