Lost Banners!

OK, I have not touched the site today. I have not edited the banners for a while..

Looking today, I noticed all my banners are not displaying, none...

I can preview them.

I have cleared cache folders.

Clueless right now..

[edit] update, also. the site in question has 17000 + members, it now says 17000 new today, this month and year, all videos, music are listed as being posted 2096 days ago, five years..

WTF has happened?

and doing a repair to the database did not help..

Just a hunch, but i sounds like a possible clock problem.

Have you checked the servers clock for proper date and time?

I really have no clue. Never seen anything like this. So just taking a educated guess.

Deano...... I swear...

your the greatest..

My system time.. System information as of Tue Oct 10 23:01:50 EDT 2006

Thanks, makes all the sense in the world.. banners would have expired.

That was it!

Amazing what a simple clock setting can do.

right, I would have never noticed that.

I use webmin and SSH and after you said that, it was right there in front of my eyes.

Now my problem is to find out why or how it got changed!

Damn Gremlins running the NTP servers.

Where is Mscott, he is good with Webmin. There is a place to set the time from a server.

Nathan, are you hinting at something? [edit] thanks, that is what I needed. To set the time server in webmin..

 https://serveraddress:10000/time/

On your webmin dashboard you should see Time on server under the System details. You can click that hyperlink to get to the time settings. 

I have no idea how to get to it from the left menu though!

Was there a power failure that took the server down?(Should not happen in most data centers) Or something done that required the server be powered off. Such as hardware replacement.

If so, then i would have the CMOS battery replaced.

But yea, you should configure a NTP server

 I did set that up for a time server in New York, set to update at boot.

@Deano, it's the PE2650 here at home, no power outage but had to power cycle due to security updates. I guess it happened then, going to check and replace the battery now as I have a duplicate backup server too I can get the battery out of.

Thanks for the help.