I missed something that you said in your earlier email...

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  I tried re-setting the sytem time, and then doing hwclock --hctosys. No 
difference.
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This probably would have worked, if you had done a :

hwclock --systohc

Kevin

Lee Einer wrote:
> Thanks, Kevin-
> 
> I had a look at /etc/sysconfig/clock, and the contents are as you 
> recommend. The problem persists. I have read the man page and the online 
> docs available for hwclock, and I am stumped!
> 
> Lee
> 
> KevinO wrote:
> 
>> This sounds like your box thinks that the clock is set to UTC (12-7 = 
>> 5 hours)
>>
>> Take a look at the file:
>>
>> /etc/sysconfig/clock
>>
>> The contents should be like the following :
>>
>> ARC=false
>> UTC=false
>> ZONE=America/Phoenix
>>
>> Good luck,
>>     KevinO
>>
>> Lee Einer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, all-
>>>
>>> My clock does not work well under Mandrake 8.2. Each time I sign on, 
>>> the time is either 5 hours ahead or 5 hours behind where it should 
>>> be. I tried changing the time with the KDE gui. No dice. I can 
>>> correct the time while under that session, but the next time I sign 
>>> on, the clock exhibits the same problem. I checked hwclock, and 
>>> verified that my hardware clock was keeping correct time. I tried 
>>> re-setting the sytem time, and then doing hwclock --hctosys. No 
>>> difference. I tried using the --localtime switch. No difference. I 
>>> tried using the --utc switch. Again, no difference. Any insights as 
>>> to how I can get this corrected?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lee Einer
>>>
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