Odd anomoly with system times

From: Jeff Green (jeff_at_the-greens.org)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:25:19 +0000
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    We have two Sarge boxes, each showing uptimes over a year both running 2.6.8
      kernels and each displaying the correct time when date is run, however
    crons are not starting at the correct time and running this rather silly
    line gives the following results:-

    ali:~# hwclock && date && ps waxu |grep grep
    Tue 29 Nov 2005 21:23:48 GMT -0.605668 seconds
    Tue Nov 29 21:23:48 GMT 2005
    root 4043 0.0 0.0 1836 600 pts/7 S+ 21:09 0:00 grep grep

    As you can see the grep appears to be running 20 minutes into the future on
    the other box the results are

    edrich:~# hwclock && date && ps waxu |grep grep
    Tue 29 Nov 2005 21:23:01 GMT -0.907145 seconds
    Tue Nov 29 21:25:20 GMT 2005
    root 21354 0.0 0.0 1832 584 pts/1 S+ 21:58 0:00 grep grep

    Two questions arise, anyone know how this can happen and anyone know how to
    resynchronise my boxes with reality?
    running ntp ntpdate rdate resetting the hwclock etc have no effect. 

    -- 
Jeff
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