On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, King Beowulf wrote:

> This 1st thing I would check is the BIOS clock.  Sometimes the OS can't
> set it correctly if it's too far off. The BIOS click can get jiggered from
> power outages of similar power glitches.
>
> Then check your time zone
> Then check/set date

Ed,

   Essentially did these checks. Then I stepped back a bit and recalled that
the hardware clock is used to keep time only when the system is shut down.
As this server/workstaion is up 24/7/365(6) and ntpd is running, it uses
system time and hwclock really does not matter. But, that information might
well be out of date.

> Note that ntpd will refuse to set the time if the current time is too far
> off.

   Yep.

> Next check the ntp time server adresses. Not all are allowed for the
> general public.

   I'm using the ones in the Slackware-14.1 /etc/ntp.conf:

# NTP server (list one or more) to synchronize with:
server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.pool.ntp.org iburst

> I'm at Denver airport so I'll check when I get in which time servers I'm
> using.

   Hope it's for a skiing vacation rather than work. :-)

Travel easy,

Rich
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