In my case the bios time was correct by the system time was off by 7
hours. Ran the command hwclock --hctosys.

thanks for the tips. Been buggin' me on how to fix it.

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 19:35, Al Sparks wrote:
> While running ntp is a good thing, another thing to look at are your
> hardware clock settings.  What I do when setting up a new machine is go
> into 
>     /etc/sysconfig/clock
> and set UTC=TRUE.
> 
> I then run
>     /sbin/hwclock --systohc -utc
> as root.
> 
> You probably want UTC to be false if you've got a dual boot system with
> one of the MS OS's.  If not, however, since linux likes to think in GMT
> (or UTC) I think it's best to change it.
> 
> Of course, the hwclock command isn't guaranteed to work with all
> hardware, but if it does work with yours, it should solve the problem.
> 
> Ntp is for miniscule clock drifts.
>    === Al 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For some strange reason, when ever I reboot my server, then time never syncs to 
>the BIOS time.
> > The OS time always resets the BIOS time and it ALWAYS resets it to 2:00 am... Not 
>sure why that
> > time, but it does. Anyone know why?
> > 
> > Im running RED HAT 7.3 with all the current updates from UP2DATE including the 
>Kernel.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Joe Giles
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > AOL ID: mcigiles
> > 
> > 
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