"Bob Cober" <cplusplus@home.com> wrote:

> Here is a strange problem.  I am running RH7.1 on a laptop, and have
> been having problems with my system clock.  It seems everytime I start
> X, the clock jumps back 7 hours. [...]

Well, we are in the MST-7 timezone (7 hours behind GMT). Any chance it's
related to a timezone setting. Perhaps you've got something configured to
assume the hardware clock is set to GMT?

- Bob