/var/log/messages is scrambled!

[Neal Becker]

OK, I think there is no question that time did not go back in /var/log/messages.  
Actually, the messages are scrambled.

First it is Jan 25.  Then it it Jan 8.  We go through normal looking periods of 
Jan 9 and 10, and Jan 13 before we're back on Feb 25.  I don't think this can be 
explained by the clock doing that - as the time spent on Jan 9, 10...13 are 
quite long.  It couldn't have actually been preceeded and followed by Jan 25.