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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
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Subject: Re: Risc/6000 date/time after New Year's
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Date: 4 Jan 91 15:08:57 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.200740.16131@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jan3.200740.16131@portia.Stanford.EDU>,
keith@sscsu.Stanford.EDU (Keith Rich) writes:
|> 
|> I find that the date/time is wrong whenever I reboot.  I didn't have this
|> problem until after New Year's.  The first reboot after New Year's seemed
|> to lose a day.  This happened on the second, but it said the first.  Now
|> I have reset the date (using smit), but when I reboot, the clock is about
|> five hours slow (I tried several times).  I am running AIX 3.1 rev 1.3,
|> and I have also seen the problem on AIX 3.1 rev 1.2 (is there a standard
|> way to say this?).

I had the same problem on 3003. The date was 24hrs behind when I came in to
work on 1/3. I reset it using the date command, but haven't rebooted yet.
If your are 5 hrs slow, check your timezone. 


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