Hardware clock is not SYNC'ed with kernel clock by ntpdate?

[Won De Erick]

Does anyone know what is going on with my system?

--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Won De Erick <won.derick at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Won De Erick <won.derick at yahoo.com>
> --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Guy Dawson <guy at crossflight.co.uk> wrote:
> > Does the hardware clock show the correct UTC time?
> > 
> > Your time zone appears to be PHT but the harware clock
> > should be keeping UTC time.
> 
> This is what I only saw in the BIOS config:
> 
> System Time    07:43:50
> System Date    Thu 02/12/2009
> 
> No setting for time zone.
> 
> > 
> > Guy
> > 
> > Won De Erick wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I've done the following procedure to verify the
> > > unstable date/time being recorded in the hardware clock.
> > > 
> > > I'm using IBM x343 with FreeBSD 6.2:
> > > 
> > > 1. Rebooted the box. Entered a wrong date/time as:
> > >    Date: December 1, 2008
> > >    Time: 12:00:00
> > > 
> > > 2. When the box was UP'ed, displayed the date (the
> > > box is sync'ed with an    NTP server during
> > > start-up). 
> > >    #date
> > >    Thu Feb 12 15:37:57 PHT 2009
> > > 
> > >    It seems correct.
> > > 
> > > 3. Change with a wrong date/time again, then
> > > displayed.    # date 0812301200
> > >    Tue Dec 30 12:00:00 PHT 2008 
> > >    # date
> > >    Tue Dec 30 12:00:14 PHT 2008
> > > 
> > >    It seems correct.
> > > 
> > > 4. Synchronized the date/time with an NTP Server.
> > > Then, displayed the date. 
> > >    # ntpdate ph.pool.ntp.org
> > >     12 Feb 15:40:59 ntpdate[3094]: step time
> > > server
> > > 202.92.128.201     offset 3814728.167216 sec
> > >       # date
> > >     Thu Feb 12 15:41:33 PHT 2009
> > > 
> > >    It seems correct.
> > > 
> > > 5. Rebooted the box, then verified the system
> > > date/time at the BIOS config.       System Time   
> > > 07:43:50
> > >    System Date    Thu 02/12/2009
> > > 
> > >  Wrong TIME? I think the hardware clock was not
> > > properly SYNCed with the kernel clock. I've
> > > verified
> > > this with other box, and same thing happened.
> > > 
> > > Is there any issues on using date and ntpdate?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Won
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > -- Guy
> > --
> >
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> 
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> > 
> >