SUMMARY: UPDATE: Bizzare date issue, time out of sequence

Original Post is below: Thanks to all who replied (even if it was just 
to let me know you were out of the office). It ended up being a hardware 
issue. I had Sun replace the System Board ( along with the NVRAM and 
Battery). I ran my little script all weekend and then pumped the out put 
through another couple of scripts and time ran forward, in sequence, 
without skipping a minute.

So chalk this up to a hardware problem.

Special thanks to Darren Dunham who hit the nail right on the head and 
was the first to respond.

Thanks,
-michael

Michael DeSimone wrote:

> Sorry two post twice I forgot to paste in the output of my script - 
> here it is please not that the hour is fine as is the seconds but the 
> minutes have problems getting from 3 to 6 - but no time is lost.
>
> Thanks again,
> Michael
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> Michael DeSimone wrote:
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>> Hello Managers,
>>
>> I have a 420R that has suddenly began exhibiting bizarre issues with 
>> it's date. We first noticed this in our iPlanet (4 SP11). It would be 
>> logging along just swimmingly and then the date would jump exactly 4 
>> hours ahead  for a few entries and then come back in line. This box 
>> was running xntpd and logged drift to /var/adm/messages - nothing 
>> this drastic was noted there. Some developers had sworn up and down 
>> that they were on the box and ran a `date` and saw the same time 
>> difference. They blamed NTP so, even though no other box on our 
>> network exhibited this issue NTP was turned off. Now this is the 
>> point at which I was pulled into the issue. I set up a stupid little 
>> script that runs a date dumps it to a file then sleeps for 60 seconds 
>> and repeats. I was hoping to see somewhat normal  operations. Of 
>> course I was not that lucky. Doing this my clock will not display the 
>> *4 and *5 minutes i.e. it would not show 7:44 and 7:45 instead it 
>> would show 7:40 and 7:41 (see pasted script output below). I ran the 
>> script on 3 other machines in the same environment and they all 
>> report time normally,  in sequence.
>>
>> vmstat -i reports normal for the clock (100)
>> Doing a sum on date reports the same as other systems
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what could cause this? Any suggestions on 
>> what else I could do to figure out what is broken?
>>
>> Thanks - will Summarize,
>> Michael
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