One Linux server has two timer

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Published on 2010-06-12T00:12:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 0:13 UTC
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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

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:51 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:52 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:53 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 18:14:12 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:55 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:56 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:56 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 18:14:15 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:58 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:58 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:00:59 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 18:14:18 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:01 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:01 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:02 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 18:14:21 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:03 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:04 PDT 2010

:~# date Fri Jun 11 17:01:05 PDT 2010

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