topic Re: Wrong date and time in Operating System - HP-UX

Wrong date and time

Alberto Hurtado — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:08:36 GMT

AFTER OF ONE REBOOT THE DATE AND HOUR OF MY K370 CHANGE OF JANUARY 10 2005 TO DECEMBER 20 2004, DOES SOMEBODY KNOW THAT REASON can HAVE FOR THIS?

Re: Wrong date and time

Geoff Wild — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:20:20 GMT

Why did you reboot?

Maybe something happend prior to reboot...

Did you reboot - or power off?

As part of standard operationg procedures, I always check the date/time after a reboot - prior to satrting applications.

A K370 is quite old - maybe the battery for internal clock is getting weak?

I'd place a support call with HP (if your server is under contract).

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Wrong date and time

Alberto Hurtado — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:32:30 GMT

the reason of the reboot was a general failure of power.

Re: Wrong date and time

Bill Hassell — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:20:11 GMT

You may have a dead processor battery. When the system reboots, HP-UX obtains the current time/date from the free-running clock in the processor which is always on. But if the battery is almost dead, the time/date value may be corrupted. There may also be a firmware patch for really old processors to handle problems with the hardware clock during a power fail.

Re: Wrong date and time

Alberto Hurtado — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:10:42 GMT

Thank you, thank you very much, in fact this k370 is old, a new firmware and the quality pack (software) from a lot of time behind that they don't arrive to this server. My company don't have money for IT.

Re: Wrong date and time

Peyman Javaheri — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:10:03 GMT

If you don't have the money to fix the problem (which should be cheap considering the gray and used market), I'd suggest running ntp and syncing the clock at each boot. The problem here is that if you have time/date sensitive data written to the computer you may be in trouble.