Weird Linode Behavior

For some reason my Red Hat Network daemon on my Linode is not checking in, so I logged into my Linode and restarted it. The really weird thing is that ps aux is showing that I have processes which started on Nov 26 (two days from now!). The 'date' command shows the correct time, but the time reported from ps is wrong. If I touch a file, it is created with the correct date.

Here is an example of my bogus 'ps' output:

root 24686 0.0 1.1 2648 708 pts/0 R Nov26 0:00 ps

Note that the ps command itself has a date of Nov26, even though I just ran it less than a minute ago at around 1:50 pm PDT Nov. 24.

Any ideas? I have a feeling that the dates listed by ps somehow come from the host system, instead of the Linode kernel, and that the host system may have a bad date …