On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:19:50PM -0500, spencer wrote: > root at troll~# date -s"Fri Jul 20 16:15:26 CDT 2001" > Fri Jul 20 22:15:26 BST 2001 > > Will you please explain to me why the time jumped 6 hours in 6ms. > Must be CDT's difference to BST. I am still not understanding. No, you understand. I don't know what/where BST is offhand, but it's 6 hours ahead of CST. You should probably run tzconfig to fix your system's time zone. (Assuming it's not in a BST location, of course.) -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox