"Actually, the explanation is quite simple.

"Looking at the job schedule, we find that the 'daily purge' job runs at 3:31 every day, causing a reboot. Of course, this is meant to be 3:31 a.m. However, when I did a date command at 07:10 a few minutes ago, I got: Fri Jan 27 19:10:33 CST 2006.

"So the answer is, someone did a date command in the afternoon four days ago, resetting the date and time, and unfortunately forgot that you have to add 12 to the time when it's afternoon. The display error you're talking about occurs simply because the system is rebooted without any keyboard or display physically connected to the processor.

"I will go ahead and reset the time on Branch X's processor."