Comment 1 for bug 498439

whats going on here is a difference between the monotonic time reported by /proc/uptime and the hwclock which does a few of the other numbers (not sure specifics) . I think this all just means your monotonic (cpu-based) clock is running alittle fast compared to the RTC (battery-powered clock). What you are experiencing is minor compared to debbug: ? which is that if ntpdate sets the clock back, you end up with duplicated entries in uprecords and uptime can go WAY up due to these double records.