The time on one of our Linux box is very weird. Whenever I call date 3 times, the 4th call will give a wrong time(usually 1 hour later). I have setup cron to sync with ntp server. We have 20+ similar servers, only this one has this problem. Any idea? Thanks.
Linux 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 20 21:56:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Edit:
:~# date; date; date; date; date; date; date; date; date
Fri Jun 11 19:12:46 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 19:12:46 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 17:59:28 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 19:12:46 PDT 2010
date; sleep 10; date; sleep 10; date; sleep 10; date; sleep 10; date; sleep 10; date; sleep 10; date
Fri Jun 11 18:05:32 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 19:19:00 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 18:05:52 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 19:19:20 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 18:06:12 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 19:19:40 PDT 2010
Fri Jun 11 18:06:32 PDT 2010