Slow system clock?

["Jason Christensen" <jchristensen@hawaii.rr.com>]

Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is slow?

 I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining a time that does not drift

 more than a CMOS clock normally does, but my kernel clock will lose approximately

 4 hours in every 9.

 I can set the system clock at 9 PM HST using date and then let Linux run over

 night. When I take a look at the system clock the following morning, the time

 is about 4 hours slow. I am running kernel 2.2.12 on a Potato system. BTW,
I
 live in Hawaii and the timezone is set to HST. I keep the CMOS clock set to

 HST as I have a dual boot Linux/Win98 box. I know that the system clock uses

 an interrupt to keep time and suspect that might be part of the problem, but

 do not know all the implications. I have no IRQ conflicts on the system that

 I am aware of, everything works fine in both Linux and Win98. Besides, the
timer
 is on a well established interrupt that shouldn't conflict with anything.

 This wouldn't be a problem other than the fact that Debian's hwclock.sh boot

 script wants to adjust the CMOS time at boot. I could just disable the boot

 time adjustment but I do not like to reboot the box very frequently and would

 like to know why the kernel clock is soooo slow.

 Thanks,

 Jason