[aclug-L] Re: my computer's entered the TwilightZone!

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does it happen during/after a reboot, or while the computer is running
normally?  If you look at your logs (say /var/log/syslog), can you tell
*when* the jump ahead took place?

You might start a cron job that runs every minute and just puts a
date/time-stamp in a file (say /root/time), then check that after your next
jump-ahead takes place to see exactly when it happened (when the date jumps
an hour and a minute rather than just a minute, you know you've found the
time it happened).

Then... see if anything happened around that time that might cause problems
(you ran XYZ app, or rebooted, or it was a certian time of day, your
relatives were visiting you, or you turned on MSNBC on your TV...)  :-)


On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:05:04AM -0600, glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> i swear my computer has been going in and out of worm holes or
> something...  every now and then, my time LEAPS ahead an hour or
> more...  it's never behind, but often jumps forward.. WHY???  is there
> some app that is doing this?  it just started semi-recently...  would
> rebooting into winblows have anything to do w/ it?  is there some app
> that may be running that is bumping it ahead?  i THOUGHT i had my TZ
> set correctly (US/Central), but maybe something's still wrong...
> 
> any help would be appreciated!
> jesse
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> 
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