Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <tmac@student.matnat.uio.no> writes: > It reports UTC when run as 'tmac', and CEST when run as 'root': > > As root: > tmac:/home/tmac# date > Thu Apr 27 19:50:37 CEST 2006 > > As tmac: > tmac@tmac ~$ date > Thu Apr 27 17:50:49 UTC 2006 Since when is it doing so? You could try to set TZ=CEST. What is the content of /etc/timezone? Matthias