To confirm that I had localtime and not UTC set I called up yast2 and checked timezone. It was showing the correct information including localtime. Exited yast2 - fired up X and noticed the time is correct (advanced 6 hrs). So maybe the last update may have set some file to UTC and rerunning yast2 reset it. Anyway the time is correct again. _________________________________________________________________________________- " Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Sun Nov 16 11:13:33 2003 " The above message is coming from /var/log/boot.msg. Problem is that something is resetting the BIOS time. This seems to happen at shutdown. I rebooted, called setup and set the date and time. I set it to 17.13.33 Fired up 9.0 and the above message showed up. I am in the US/Central timezone in /etc/sysconfig/clock. This zoneinfo comes from Yast during the install and is correct for this location. The problem is that the wrong time is sent to the BIOS so at reboot time it shows up as yesterday. The date and time just get progressively wrong. Anyone noticed this problem. It is easy to see by just typing "date" after setting the bios time -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316