Clock skew on FC13

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/06/2010 04:18 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What could be the cause of significant clock skew? The PC operated
> fine for quite some time, and either something changed or there is
> something wrong with the motherboard, but the clock could skew an hour
> in less than a 24 hour period. The PC is usually completely idle. It
> has all regular x86_64 FC13 updates applied.
>
> I've done a bit of searching online, but haven't had much success. How
> can I go about troubleshooting this?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

Have you checked the date? ntpd adjusts time by making the clock run 
faster or slower - so if your date is in the past, ntpd may be trying to 
catch up.
try running "ntpq -p" -- that should show you how far you are from your 
ntp server