Thank you to Rick Thomas and the many others trying to help me with my "hwclock incorrectly set".
-------------------------------------------------- According to aptitude, I do not have ntp installed. -------------------------------------------------- My system is indeed a dual-boot (not counting recovery options) of windows and linux. However, I doubt I use the windows partition more than two or three times a year. I used default options with the installer. Perhaps these excerpts from grub.cfg will help: menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple menuentry 'Windows 7 (on /dev/sda1) menuentry 'Windows 7 (on /dev/sda2)' menuentry 'Windows Recovery Environment (on /dev/sda3)' -------------------------------------------------- The /etc/adjtime file: 0.009639 1512909359 0.000000 1512909359 LOCAL --------------------------------------------------