Re: Time not correct based on timezone

From: David (thunderbolt01_at_netscape.net)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:45:30 GMT

Jadow wrote:
>
> No everything is fine. localtime points to right thing and doing date
> also shows MST. Just time itself resets itself to UTC on every wake or
> boot. Any ideas?

Is the system clock set to use UTC? Some BIOS don't give you a
choice. Just an idea. I haven't ran across any problems like
yours before. 

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