system clock misleading...

[travis breaux <st3ck@Bayou.UH.EDU>]

	I have a problem with my system clock and /sbin/clock not being 
able to agree on the time. After setting the CMOS clock from my Award 
BIOS and booting debian, the clock command in the init.d/boot script will 
attempt to set the system clock and then adjust for (or is it with?) 
error. The trouble becomes that the time continually sets back to the 
last time debian was running, both on the system (and then adjusted for 
error) into the CMOS. To be sure, I used my ms-dos partition to test my 
system clock, and naturally, nothing to complex - the time is quite 
consistant. I've tried disabling the "clock -a" option from the boot 
script hoping that clock would only read the time (which takes 
considerable time in itself, 20-30 secs?) without causing any sort of 
write to CMOS - with no luck, the time is still setting back.
	So I've searched the man page, and can't seem to find anything 
else that would lead me to the right direction, has anyone an idea of 
where to tinker next?

travis
houston, tejas