clock problems

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Hi,

I'm having problems getting my clock to stay set. I'm dual booting with 
XP, and I can set the clock in XP and from the BIOS without problem. 
However, somewhere I've set Etch to consider the hardware clock as GMT, 
so I get a time three hours earlier than proper. I tried to correct 
this with

hwclock -s --localtime

However, this must not be right, because the change doesn't stick 
between reboots. Furthermore, if I don't do hwclock -s, and just 
continue working with the wrong time, when I shut the computer down it 
resets the hardware clock to the system clock. This means that the 
system clock 'loses' three hours every time I boot. I want the 
opposite, to set the system clock to the hardware clock, and on boot. 
How do I set this up?

Thanks,

Tyler