The time zone configuration does not have "PDT" as an option. I finally selected America/Los_Angeles, but this is of course not the name of any time zone. It also wrote America/Los_Angeles into /etc/timezone . Thanks Bruce -- "Excusing bad programming is a shooting offense, no matter _what_ the circumstances". - Linus Torvalds, to the linux-kernel mailing list. "I will no longer make excuses for Linus". - Bruce Perens