I left this off the initial report until I could check it but..... BIOS time is set to correct localtime (I've checked). bios time=16:32 12-Feb-2007 date gives: Tue Feb 13 02:33:20 EST 2007 So its added an extra 10 hours - since I'm at GMT+10 that might be sane except /etc/timezone is correct and cat /etc/default/rcS gives -> UTC=no