date was 1 day ahead

From: Bernt Christandl <beb_at_xray.mpe.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 07:33:58 +0200

Hello managers,

most of our DU-machines have a date that is synchronized via ntpdate.

On few of our other machines (DU, VMS, Linux) i have seen a date that
has "somehow" gained one day. I have realized this about 4 or 5 times
within the last 2(?) months.

My last example was on a Linux box, which claimed last monday, that is
was 1-Sep-1998 (while all the others agreed, that it was still 31-Aug-1998).

I wonder how such a gain on a running machine could happen?
If no user changed the date, are there other possibilities?

With regards,

Bernt Christandl

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