So, my server is living in the future, unfortunately I can't get lottery numbers, or stock picks out of it.

It thinks this is the time: Thu Nov 7 04:07:18 EST 2013

Not correct, I tried to set the time manually via date in a few ways

# date -s "06 NOV 2013 14:48:00"

# date 110614482013 -- same output, same problem

Which outputs Wed Nov 6 14:48:00 EST 2013, but when I check the date again, it's still set to Nov 7th 0400 or whatever.

I checked my system messages, and I see this pop up often:

Nov 7 03:54:00 www ntpd[4482]: time correction of -47927 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.

Which makes sense, we're way off the correct time. But I can't seem to manually fix it. So now what?

Also, I'm wondering if my hardware clock is setup correct, hwclock doesn't return any values. Would that be causing issues?

This is a virtualized server, I don't have direct access to the hypervisor, but I can talk to who does, assume I can explain myself well enough.

Thanks