On 10/07/2016 02:09 PM, Bill Askew wrote:
> Mark
> The hwclock --systohc worked thanks!  :-)
>
> Still kind of odd that the date command does not cause the date and time to the hardware clock when shutting down
> (this is how it works on a Lenovo T61p running SL 6.2)
>
> Bill
>

This is probably useful:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sect-Configuring_the_Date_and_Time-hwclock.html

There is a note about how the system clock is synced every 11 minutes to 
hardware.  This might be a configuration option in chrony or ntpd. 
Plenty of good information in that document to dig through.