Mark That defiantly explains it. Thanks for the help Bill -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stodola [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 2:16 PM To: EXT-Askew, R W <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: SL 7.2 on a HP Zbook 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.