Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron.
I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's act together, I guess. Earlier today (before bsd), Sarge's clock was even running *backward* sometimes. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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