Time travel experiment?

From: Frans Pop
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 10:58:20 EST


After resuming my system today I noticed that the system time was off.
By 16 years...

$ date
Wed Jul 3 23:09:23 CEST 2024

The kernel log clearly shows the jump happening during a resume:
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: PM: Finishing wakeup.
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: Restarting tasks ... done.
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:c1:38:e5:15
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs63
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa63
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:c1:38:e5:15
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:14:c1:38:e5:15 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: wlan0: associated
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcs63
Sep 10 15:31:41 aragorn kernel: PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcsa63
Jul 3 23:09:08 aragorn kernel: wlan0: deauthenticated
Jul 3 23:09:09 aragorn kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:c1:38:e5:15
Jul 3 23:09:09 aragorn kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Jul 3 23:09:09 aragorn kernel: wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:c1:38:e5:15
Jul 3 23:09:09 aragorn kernel: wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:14:c1:38:e5:15 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
Jul 3 23:09:09 aragorn kernel: wlan0: associated

I can find no other clues about the jump in my logs.

Running 2.6.27-rc6. Clock source is hpet.
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