wonky time when upgrading to potato

[Nick Matthews <legolas@linuxfreak.com>]

I have two AlphaStation 200 4/166 machines, which I currently have slink
installed on. When I first installed them however, I tried to upgrade them
to potato, but then the time went all wonky. hwclock returned the correct 
time, but every other program turned up all sorts of interesting answers
for the time. The time seemed to jump around randomly, showing no consistency.

Is there any particular reason why potato would behave differently than 
slink?

I would like to upgrade the machines to a more recent version of linux, but 
I don't want to ruin the installations.

Thanks
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