[plug] Re: system time borking

[Tim]

2009/9/7 gavin chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com>:
> Bit more info on this issue:
> It's not cmos battery or time servers behind my issue, it seems. I
> looked at my boot.msg and saw that the hardware clock is keeping
> correct time at boot, eg:
>
> (Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Mon Sep  7 08:38:42 2009)
>
> but the desktop (system?) time is the one way off and random by
> comparison. In the case above the desktop clock was out by about
> 3weeks compared the the current time given in boot.msg. I'm a bit hazy
> on system time versus hardware time, and wonder why they've decided to
> go and do their own thing, with only one of them being correct.

Any chance you are hibernating at all? Or suspending to RAM? I've had
times where the desktop clock is way off (as you say, weeks) while the
system clock is fine. Also, check your timezone settings, both for the
system and for the desktop (if it has it's own timezone settings).

Tim