I'm actually having this issue as well. I'm running current on an old Netra T105 and at boot the date isn't updated when running ntpd with the "-s" option. It won't even do it from the commandline I think because the skew it so bad (the bottom of the dmesg outlines it clearly). I had to set the date by hand to get it close and then startup ntpd to get it run with the "-s" option. I'm not running ipv6 and my ntp server is my OBSD firewall.
When I tried to run ntpd with "-s" I get the following errors: Nov 25 09:34:10 blade ntpd[8306]: recvmsg control format 192.168.250.1: No such file or directory Nov 25 09:34:38 blade ntpd[29786]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed I guess the real question is do I need to change the damn battery or is there an issue with ntpd with a large skew ? Thanks in advance. Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) udp 0 0 192.168.150.222.26027 192.168.250.1.123 OpenBSD 4.5-current (GENERIC) #0: Sun Jun 14 02:35:19 MDT 2009 dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 536870912 (512MB) avail mem = 507363328 (483MB) mainbus0 at root: Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz) cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi (rev 9.1) @ 440.011 MHz cpu0: physical 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 2048K external (64 b/l) psycho0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc0000: SUNW,sabre, impl 0, version 0, ign 7c0 psycho0: bus range 0-3, PCI bus 0 psycho0: dvma map c0000000-dfffffff pci0 at psycho0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ebus0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Sun PCIO EBus2" rev 0x01 auxio0 at ebus0 addr 726000-726003, 728000-728003, 72a000-72a003, 72c000-72c003, 72f000-72f003 power0 at ebus0 addr 724000-724003 ivec 0x25 "SUNW,pll" at ebus0 addr 504000-504002 not configured com0 at ebus0 addr 3803f8-3803ff ivec 0x1c: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at ebus0 addr 3602f8-3602ff ivec 0x14: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo lpt0 at ebus0 addr 340278-340287, 30015c-30015d, 700000-70000f ivec 0x22: polled clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59 "flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured "watchdog" at ebus0 addr 200000-20003f ivec 0x4 not configured "display7seg" at ebus0 addr 200040-200040 not configured beeper0 at ebus0 addr 722000-722003 "flashprom" at ebus0 addr 400000-5fffff not configured "flashprom" at ebus0 addr 800000-9fffff not configured pcfiic0 at ebus0 addr 600000-600003 ivec 0x28 iic0 at pcfiic0 pcfadc0 at iic0 addr 0x4f "i2cpcf,8574a" at iic0 addr 0x38 not configured "i2cpcf,8574a" at iic0 addr 0x39 not configured pcfiic1 at ebus0 addr 100000-100003 ivec 0x1b iic1 at pcfiic1 "SUNW,lom" at ebus0 addr 400000-400063 not configured hme0 at pci1 dev 1 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7e1, address 08:00:20:c1:e5:66 luphy0 at hme0 phy 0: LU6612 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 siop0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c875" rev 0x03: ivec 0x7e0, using 4K of on-board RAM scsibus0 at siop0: 16 targets, initiator 7 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MAG3091L SUN9.0G, 1111> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 8637MB, 512 bytes/sec, 17689267 sec total sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MAG3091L SUN9.0G, 1111> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 8637MB, 512 bytes/sec, 17689267 sec total hme1 at pci1 dev 3 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7da, address 08:00:20:c1:e5:67 luphy1 at hme1 phy 0: LU6612 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "DEC 21150 PCI-PCI" rev 0x04 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 pciide0 at pci3 dev 14 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0646" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide0: using ivec 0x7c2 for native-PCI interrupt pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-1902B, 1114> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 softraid0 at root siop0: target 0 now using tagged 16 bit 20.0 MHz 16 REQ/ACK offset xfers siop0: target 1 now using tagged 16 bit 20.0 MHz 16 REQ/ACK offset xfers bootpath: /p...@1f,0/p...@1,1/s...@2,0/d...@0,0 root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b WARNING: preposterous time in file system WARNING: clock lost 21767 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!