Re: Strange output from "last" command

[ressu@uusikaupunki.fi (Sami Haahtinen)]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:40:01PM -0800, William R. Ward wrote:
> xxxxxx   pts/3        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Wed Mar 21 14:17   still logged in   
> date     {                             Wed Mar 21 02:00   still logged in   
> date     |                             Wed Mar 21 02:00   still logged in   
> xxxx     pts/1        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Wed Mar 21 01:23   still logged in   
> xxxx     pts/3        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Wed Mar 21 00:09 - 01:23  (01:13)    
> xxx      ftpd23719    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Tue Mar 20 23:25 - 23:35  (00:10)    
> xxx      ftpd23714    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Tue Mar 20 23:25 - 23:35  (00:10)    
> xxx      ftpd23702    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Tue Mar 20 23:24 - 23:25  (00:01)    
> xxxxxx   pts/3        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Tue Mar 20 20:00 - 20:17  (00:17)    
> xxxxxx   pts/3        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Tue Mar 20 19:01 - 19:09  (00:07)    

the same thing has happened to me on a box with a crude hack... 

the hack was to fetch time every hour or so from another box and adjust the
time accordingly (using rdate), the box itself is some 10 year old 486 which
had a broken bios and well.. i didn't want to spend time thinking about getting
a new bios or flashing the current one =)

try checking if you have some software that adjusts your time.

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