First post from a SuSE noobee ;> An associate installed os and time was way, way off. I had him reboot and set cmos clock to gmt/utc; but, when system came up, system time was also gmt/utc. yast2 allowed me to confirm timezone and I changed from local to gmt; but, system time didn't change. So, I ran this from cli: hwclock --hctosys --utc Of course, this works; but, will it stick? /etc/init.d/boot contains the only reference to hwclock that I can find in the init scripts; but, nothing like this invocation. What is the SuSE way of doing this? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . .